Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > However, I completely fail to see the advantage that the > PYTHONFSENCODING variable has over the LANG variable. If it's > possible to set PTHONFSENCODING in some application, it surely > is also possible to set LANG (or LC_CTYPE), no? Setting the > latter also gives you the advantage that environment variables > and command line arguments use the same encoding as file names.
I guess LANG and LC_CTYPE can be used for other purposes such as internationalization. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9992> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
