Message 195862 - Python tracker

Message195862

Author	vstinner
Recipients	Arfrever, a.badger, abadger1999, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, lemburg, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2013-08-22.06:53:28
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In-reply-to	<1377150467.74.0.78539952282.issue18713@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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"The surrogateescape error handler works with any codec." The surrogatepass only works with utf-8 if I remember correctly. The surrogateescape error handler works with any codec, especially ascii. "As a side effect of this change an input from stdin will be incompatible in general with extensions which implicitly encode a string to bytes with UTF-8 (e.g. tkinter, XML parsers, sqlite3, datetime, locale, curses, etc.)" Correct, but it's not something new: os.listdir(), sys.argv, os.environ and other functions using os.fsdecode(). Applications should already have to support surrogates.

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"The surrogateescape error handler works with any codec."

The surrogatepass only works with utf-8 if I remember correctly. The
surrogateescape error handler works with any codec, especially ascii.

"As a side effect of this change an input from stdin will be incompatible
in general with extensions which implicitly encode a string to bytes with
UTF-8 (e.g. tkinter, XML parsers, sqlite3, datetime, locale, curses, etc.)"

Correct, but it's not something new: os.listdir(), sys.argv, os.environ and
other functions using os.fsdecode(). Applications should already have to
support surrogates.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-08-22 06:53:28	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, ncoghlan, pitrou, abadger1999, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, a.badger, Arfrever, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka
2013-08-22 06:53:28	vstinner	link	issue18713 messages
2013-08-22 06:53:28	vstinner	create