STINNER Victor added the comment:
Attached patch is a draft adding a new encoding: command line encoding. It is
used to encode (subprocess) and decode (python) the command line arguments. It
adds sys.getcmdlineencoding().
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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file1771
STINNER Victor added the comment:
@loewis: You restored the original (wrong) title "Use locale encoding to decode
sys.argv, not the file system encoding", instead of the new (good) title "Use
locale encoding to encode command line arguments (subprocess, os.exec*(),
etc.)". Is it wanted or not
Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
> I think that we should use the locale encoding to encode and decode command
> line arguments.
I disagree. IIUC, this is only about OSX. Now, we shouldn't take any
action until either some OSX expert explains us how command line
arguments are being passed o
New submission from STINNER Victor :
The file system is hardcoded to UTF-8 on Mac OS X, whereas the locale
encoding... depends on the locale. See issue #4388 for the details.
I think that we should use the locale encoding to encode and decode command
line arguments. We have to create a new enc
