For what it's worth, the OSX API's seem to behave as follows:
* If you create a file with an non-UTF8 name on a HFS+ filesystem the system automaticly encodes the name.
That is, open(chr(255), 'w') will silently create a file named '%FF' instead of the name you'd expect on a unix system.
* If you mount an NFS filesystem from a linux host and that directory contains a file named chr(255)
- unix-level tools will see a file with the expected name (just like on linux) - Cocoa's NSFileManager returns u"?" as the filename, that is when the filename cannot be decoded using UTF-8 the name returned by the high- level API is mangled. This is regardless of the setting of LANG. - I haven't found a way yet to access files whose names are not valid UTF-8 using the high-level Cocoa API's.
The latter two are interesting because Cocoa has a unicode filesystem API on top of a POSIX C-API, just like Python 3.x. I guess the choosen behaviour works out on OSX (where users are unlikely to run into this issue), but could be more problematic on other POSIX systems.
Ronald On 28 Apr, 2009, at 14:03, Michael Foord wrote:
Paul Moore wrote:2009/4/28 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>:Paul Moore <p.f.moore <at> gmail.com> writes:I've yet to hear anyone claim that they would have an actual problemYep, that's the problem. Lots of theoretical problems noone has ever encountered brought up against a PEP which resolves some actual problems people encounter onwith a specific piece of code they have written.a regular basis.For the record, I'm +1 on the PEP being accepted and implemented as soon aspossible (preferably before 3.1).In case it's not clear, I am also +1 on the PEP as it stands.Me 2 MichaelPaul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk-- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ronaldoussoren%40mac.com
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