> I'm working on surrogates in filenames on Linux (more generally on BSD and > UNIX OS) to support undecodable filenames, see PEP 383. Amaury told me that I > only fixed the non-Windows versions (I fixed subprocess about the current > directory and _ctypes.dlopen()), but it doesn't work on Windows. > > It's a choice, I didn't want to patch Windows because I know that Windows use > unicode internally. I consider that developers using Python3 should use > unicode on Windows, and byte or unicode+surrogates on other OS. > > I don't know well Windows API, and so I would like your opinion about that ;-)
Can you please elaborate what the specific issue is? I completely fail to see what byte strings have to do with surrogate codes. AFAICT, on Windows, you can just use surrogate codes at the APIs, and be done. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
