On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:20:03AM +0200, Victor Stinner wrote: >> Both issues are related and should be fixed in the *same* commit. >> Python should provide an option to encode explicitly filenames to >> UTF-8. Or maybe better: encode to UTF-8 by default, with an option to >> encode to cp437, and another to encode to an arbitrary encoding. > > Why single out cp437 for special treatment? Surely it's enough to use > UTF-8 by default, or specify an arbitrary encoding.
It is part of the ZIP specification. CP437 or UTF-8 are the two official choices, but other encodings happen on Russian, Japanese systems. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
