[Patches] [ python-Patches-1734346 ] patch for bug 1170311 "zipfile UnicodeDecodeError"

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Patches item #1734346, was opened at 2007-06-10 14:53
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Category: Library (Lib)
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Alexey Borzenkov (snaury)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: patch for bug 1170311 "zipfile UnicodeDecodeError"

Initial Comment:
This patch fixes UnicodeDecodeError when attempting to write files to zipfile with filename of unicode class.

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>Comment By: Alexey Borzenkov (snaury)
Date: 2007-06-11 00:29

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File Added: python-zipfile-unicode-filenames-utf8.patch

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2007-06-10 20:48

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This patch is incorrect. It relies on the system encoding, and allows
non-string things as file names. What it really should do is to encode in
code page 437; bonus points if it falls back to the UTF-8 feature of zip
files when that encoding fails.

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