On Dec 5, 2008, at 5:27 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
Using the byte variant is equally fubar, because e.g. on MS Windows
it is not
supported, except through a very lossy roundtrip through the locale's
codepage, limiting your functionality.
Yeah, IMO whole mess could have been avoided by keeping the filename/
args/environ simply *bytes*, like it really is, on unix. Then, make
the Windows version of python use (always! not dependent upon locale!)
utf-8 to decode the utf-8 bytestring to the UTF-16 that the Windows
platform APIs expect (and vice versa). And never use the ASCII variant
of the windows APIs.
This would mean that all *inputs* would succeed, but some *outputs*
would not, on Windows. But that's not a new kind of failure: NUL has
never been allowed in argv/environ, and filenames have all sorts of
platform-dependent restrictions.
But unfortunately, it's too late for that solution...
James
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