On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > While the code page system was necessary at > the time, the legacy of them today continues to plague computer users, causing > moji-bake, errors on file systems[1], and holding back the adoption of > Unicode. > > [1] I'm speaking from experience there. Take files created on a Windows > machine > using some legacy code page, and try to copy them to another server using > Unicode, and depending on the intelligence of the server, you may not be able > to copy them. On the flip side, there are many file names I can easily create > on Linux but cannot copy to a FAT file system.
And getting a .zip file from a Windows user that had a file in it called "Café Sounds.something", extracting it on Linux, and finding it called "Caf\xe9" or something. Very annoying. Fortunately it was only the one file in a large directory. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
