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Author	lars.gustaebel
Recipients	lars.gustaebel, vstinner
Date	2010年05月30日.12:31:53
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My expertise on Windows is rather limited, but as far as I understand the issue, I consider this a reasonable idea. I think it is impossible to find a perfect default encoding, and utf-8 seems to be the best bet with regard to portability. IIRC most of the archivers on the Windows machines I have access to use latin-1, but I don't think that latin-1 is a suitable default value. I don't know much about Windows internals and have no idea what mbcs really is, but it is actually not available on other platforms.

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My expertise on Windows is rather limited, but as far as I understand the issue, I consider this a reasonable idea.
I think it is impossible to find a perfect default encoding, and utf-8 seems to be the best bet with regard to portability. IIRC most of the archivers on the Windows machines I have access to use latin-1, but I don't think that latin-1 is a suitable default value. I don't know much about Windows internals and have no idea what mbcs really is, but it is actually not available on other platforms.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010年05月30日 12:31:55	lars.gustaebel	set	recipients: + lars.gustaebel, vstinner
2010年05月30日 12:31:55	lars.gustaebel	set	messageid: <1275222715.84.0.257698716888.issue8784@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010年05月30日 12:31:54	lars.gustaebel	link	issue8784 messages
2010年05月30日 12:31:53	lars.gustaebel	create

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