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

Steve Dower steve.dower at python.org
Wed Sep 7 14:09:34 EDT 2016

On 07Sep2016 1037, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'm hijacking this thread to provisionally accept PEP 529. (I'll also do this for PEP 528, in its own thread.)

I've talked things over with Steve and Victor and we're going to do an experiment (as now written up in the PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0529/#beta-experiment) to tease out any issues with this change during the beta. If serious problems crop up we may have to roll back the changes and reject the PEP -- we won't get another chance at getting this right. (That would also mean that using the binary filesystem APIs will remain deprecated and will eventually be disallowed; as long as the PEP remains accepted they are undeprecated.) Congrats Steve! Thanks for the massive amount of work on the implementation and the thinking that went into the design. Thanks everyone else for their feedback. --Guido

Thanks! I've updated the status. Now the process of bartering for code reviews begins :)

Patches are at: PEP 528: http://bugs.python.org/issue1602 PEP 529: http://bugs.python.org/issue27781

Cheers, Steve

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