[Python-Dev] non-US zip archives support in zipfile.py (original) (raw)

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 10:53:42 CEST 2013

FYI zipfile does do UTF-8 (http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/d7ebe03fa752/Lib/zipfile.py#l368). Only the non-Unicode encodings might need some help. I like that the patch is only concerned with decoding. Is it necessary to support writing non-UTF8 encodings?

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> 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.

Victor 2013/10/15 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com>: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

I opened an issue proposing exactly the same change, but I didn't provide a patch.

I found this: http://bugs.python.org/issue10614 but it has (seemingly incorrect) patch. Also related: http://bugs.python.org/issue10972 Victor - is any of these what you had in mind?

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