[Python-Dev] File system path encoding on Windows

[Nick Coghlan]

On 31 August 2016 at 10:27, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
> On 30Aug2016 1702, Victor Stinner wrote:
>> I can try to run more tests if you know some other major Python
>> applications (modules?) working on Windows/Python 3.
>
> The major ones aren't really the concern. I'd be interested to see where
> numpy and pandas are at, but I suspect they've already encountered and fixed
> many of these issues due to the size of the user base. (Though skim-reading
> numpy I see lots of code that would be affected - for better or worse - if
> the default encoding for open() changed...)

For a case of "Don't break software already trying to do things
right", the https://github.com/beetbox/beets example that Daniel
linked earlier would be a good one to test.

Cheers,
Nick.

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