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[Python-Dev] PEP 529: Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Sep 8 12:57:04 EDT 2016 
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 at 09:06 Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> wrote:
>
>> And apart from Python, few shell commands that work on
>> Unix make much sense on Windows,
>
>
> Does the (optional) addition of bash to Windows 10 have any impact on this?
>
> It'll be something that Windows developers can't count on their users
> having for a good while, if ever, but if you can control the deployment
> environment, then you might. And it would be VERY tempting for
> "posix-focused" developers that want to run their code on Windows.
>
> So it would be nice if the "new" approach worked well with bash on Windows.
>

Bash on Windows is just Linux, so it isn't affected by any of this.
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