On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 09:12:13PM +0200, Victor Stinner wrote: > Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 18:44:19, Oleg Broytman a ?crit : > > My filesystems are always koi8-r, but sometimes I work with programs in > > utf-8 locale. Just an example... > > Are programs able to display correctly non-ascii filenames if your locale > encoding is different than your filesystem encoding?
Most of them don't because - you are right - most programs assume fs encoding to be the same as stdio locale. But some programs are more clever; for example, one can define G_FILENAME_ENCODING env var to guide GTK2/GLib programs; it can be a fixed encoding or a special value "@locale". On the other side there are programs that ignore locale completely and read/write filenames using their own fixed encoding; for example, Transmission bittorrent client read/write files in the encoding defined in the .torrent metafile. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phd.pp.ru/ p...@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ 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