Message 117717 - Python tracker

Message117717

Author	vstinner
Recipients	lemburg, loewis, pjenvey, ronaldoussoren, vstinner
Date	2010-09-30.10:53:37
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Message-id	<1285844019.95.0.710761152673.issue9992@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> A system where the filesystem encoding doesn't match the locale > encoding is hard to get right. Mmmh. The problem is maybe that the new PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable (added by #8622) introduced an horrible inconstency between Python and other applications. Other applications ignore PYTHONFSENCODING. The simplest solution to fix this issue is to remove PYTHONFSENCODING variable. In this case, the user have to set LANG, LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE, instead of PYTHONFSENCODING, to set Python filesystem encoding.

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> A system where the filesystem encoding doesn't match the locale
> encoding is hard to get right.

Mmmh. The problem is maybe that the new PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable (added by #8622) introduced an horrible inconstency between Python and other applications. Other applications ignore PYTHONFSENCODING.

The simplest solution to fix this issue is to remove PYTHONFSENCODING variable. In this case, the user have to set LANG, LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE, instead of PYTHONFSENCODING, to set Python filesystem encoding.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-09-30 10:53:40	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, loewis, ronaldoussoren, pjenvey
2010-09-30 10:53:39	vstinner	set	messageid: <1285844019.95.0.710761152673.issue9992@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-09-30 10:53:37	vstinner	link	issue9992 messages
2010-09-30 10:53:37	vstinner	create