[Python-Dev] PEP 529: Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8 (original) (raw)

Adam Bartoš drekin at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 14:31:05 EDT 2016


Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan at gmail.com) on Sat Sep 3 12:27:44 EDT 2016 wrote:

After also reading the Windows console encoding PEP, I realised there's a couple of missing discussions here regarding the impacts on sys.argv, os.environ, and os.environb.

The reason that's relevant is that "sys.getfilesystemencoding" is a bit of a misnomer, as it's also used to determine the assumed encoding of command line arguments and environment variables. Regarding sys.argv, AFAIK Unicode arguments work well on Python 3. Even non-BMP characters are transferred correctly.

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