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

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 14:49:11 CEST 2013

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:20:03AM +0200, Victor Stinner 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. Why single out cp437 for special treatment? Surely it's enough to use UTF-8 by default, or specify an arbitrary encoding.

It is part of the ZIP specification. CP437 or UTF-8 are the two official choices, but other encodings happen on Russian, Japanese systems.

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