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

[Adam Bartoš]

Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan at gmail.com) on Sat Sep 3 12:27:44 EDT 2016 wrote:

> After also reading the Windows console encoding PEP, I realised
> there's a couple of missing discussions here regarding the impacts on
> sys.argv, os.environ, and os.environb.
>
> The reason that's relevant is that "sys.getfilesystemencoding" is a
> bit of a misnomer, as it's also used to determine the assumed encoding
> of command line arguments and environment variables.
>
>
Regarding sys.argv, AFAIK Unicode arguments work well on Python 3. Even
non-BMP characters are transferred correctly.


Adam Bartoš
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