On 3/17/2021 8:00 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
How about writing paths as bytestrings in the long term? I think this
should eliminate the necessity of knowing the correct encoding for
the filesystem.
That's what we're trying to do, the problem is that they start as
strings, and so we need to convert them to a bytestring.
That conversion is the encoding ;)
And yeah, for reading, I'd use a UTF-8 reader that falls back to locale
on failure (and restarts reading the file). But for writing, we need the
tools that create these files (including Notepad!) to use the encoding
we want.
Cheers,
Steve
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