[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] New proposition for Python3 bytes filename issue

[Adam Olsen]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:06 PM,  <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
> The proposal of using U+0000 seems like it would have been almost the same
> from such a wrapper's perspective, except (A) people using the filesystem
> APIs without the benefit of such a wrapper would have been even more
> screwed, and (B) there are a few nasty corner-cases when dealing with
> surrogate (i.e. invalid, in UTF-8) code points which I'm not quite sure what
> it would have done with.

Surrogates in UTF-8 *should* be treated as errors, but current python
is far too lax.  That actually leads to another problem: improving
validating will change what gets escaped and what doesn't.

http://bugs.python.org/issue3297
http://bugs.python.org/issue3672



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Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus