[Python-Dev] File system path encoding on Windows (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 21:20:47 EDT 2016

On 30 August 2016 at 11:10, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

A nice recent blog post about paths encoding in a media player. http://beets.io/blog/paths.html . It's not merely the porting that makes it hard.

Interestingly, with Steve's proposed changes, their approach of using bytes paths internally should "just work" on Windows in UTF-8 mode, even without their syspath converter. So I may be being unduly pessimistic in assuming this will be useful primarily for network services - cross-platform desktop development may benefit as well.

(The additional info doesn't change my view that we'd benefit from a release cycle's worth of availability as an opt-in provisional behaviour though)

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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