Unicode filenames

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Dec 7 16:36:23 EST 2019


On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 8:33 AM Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:
> Yeah, heard all that before :) But, seriously, I wonder how many short
> (less than 100 lines) programs there are out there written in py2 that will
> not run in py3. Good thing py2 will still be available to be installed for
> many, many years!

If they're that short and people are depending on them, it won't be
too much work to port them. And you gain a huge measure of
reliability: you no longer have to worry about "Unicode filenames" -
or, to be more precise, "non-ASCII filenames" - because everything
will just work.

ChrisA


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