[Python-Dev] Inconsistencies if locale and filesystem?encodings are different (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Thu Oct 7 21:42:47 CEST 2010
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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.
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