New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com>: mbcs encoding doesn't support surrogateescape (see #850997), and mbcs should only be used in strict mode to encode/decode filenames.
os.fsencode() should also be enabled on Windows. First I tried to disable this function on Windows to avoid the evil mbcs encoding, but mbcs encoding *is* used by some modules written in C (functions using PyUnicode_FSConverter(): encode the filename to bytes with mbcs encoding on Windows). Eg. _ssl module use PyUnicode_FSConverter() to get filenames because the underlying library, OpenSSL, requires bytes for the filenames (C type: char*). Enable os.fsencode() on Windows helps some tests (eg. fix test_ssl). Use "strict" error handler, instead of "surrogateescape", to encode/decode filenames with mbcs encoding, does nothing yet because mbcs codec ignore the errors argument. These changes prepare the work on mbcs codec: see #850997. Note: os.fsencode() was introduced by #8514. ---------- components: Interpreter Core, Library (Lib), Unicode, Windows files: fsencode_mbcs.patch keywords: patch messages: 107510 nosy: haypo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Windows: use (mbcs in) strict mode to encode/decode filenames, and enable os.fsencode() versions: Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17616/fsencode_mbcs.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8969> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
