[Python-Dev] Bytes path support (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 00:28:09 CEST 2014

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 07:04:20AM +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote: > "cp1251 of utf-8 encoding" is non-sensical. Either it is cp1251 or it is > utf-8, but it is not both. Maybe you meant "or" instead of "of".

I'd assume "or" meant there, rather than "of", it's a common typo. Not sure why 1251, specifically This is the encoding of Russian Windows. Files and emails in Russia are mostly in cp1251 encoding; something like 60-70%, I think. The second popular encoding is cp866 (Russian DOS); it's used by Windows as OEM encoding.

Yeah, that makes sense. In any case, you pick one "most likely" 8-bit encoding and go with it.

ChrisA

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