[Python-Dev] Unicode strings as filenames
Martin v. Loewis
martin@v.loewis.de
Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:46:20 +0100
> The only option I see to make this situation less painful is
> to write a filename subsystem which implements two generic
> APIs:
>> 1. file open using strings and Unicode
I think this "pretty much" works in Python 2.2 already. It uses the
"mbcs" encoding on Windows, and the locale's encoding on Unix if
locale.setlocale has been called (and the C library is good enough).
That might be still wrong if the file system expects UTF-8, or a fixed
encoding (e.g. on an NTFS or VFAT partition mounted on Linux), but I
don't think there is anything that can be done about this: It would be
a misconfigured system if then the user doesn't also use an UTF-8
locale.
> 2. file listing using either Unicode or strings with a predefined
> encoding in the output list
That is something that certainly needs to be done. Having a PEP on
that would be useful.
Regards,
Martin