On Apr 28, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Are you proposing to unconditionally encode file names as
iso8859-15, or to do so only when undecodeable bytes are encountered?
For what it is worth, what we have previously planned to do for the
Tahoe project is the second of these -- decode using some 1-byte
encoding such as iso-8859-1, iso-8859-15, or windows-1252 only in the
case that attempting to decode the bytes using the local alleged
encoding failed.
If you switch to iso8859-15 only in the presence of undecodable
UTF-8, then you have the same round-trip problem as the PEP: both
b'\xff' and b'\xc3\xbf' will be converted to u'\u00ff' without a
way to unambiguously recover the original file name.
Why do you say that? It seems to work as I expected here:
>>> '\xff'.decode('iso-8859-15')
u'\xff'
>>> '\xc3\xbf'.decode('iso-8859-15')
u'\xc3\xbf'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> '\xff'.decode('cp1252')
u'\xff'
>>> '\xc3\xbf'.decode('cp1252')
u'\xc3\xbf'
Regards,
Zooko
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