On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 04:38:22PM +0100, Victor Stinner wrote: [...] > Python 3 promotes Unicode everywhere including filenames. A solution to > support filenames not decodable from the locale encoding was found: the > ``surrogateescape`` error handler (`PEP 393 > <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/>`_), store undecodable bytes > as surrogate characters.
PEP 393 is the Flexible String Respresentation. I think you want PEP 383, Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0383/ > The problem is that operating system data like filenames are decoded > using the ``surrogateescape`` error handler (PEP 393). /s/393/283/ -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
