[Tutor] myown.getfilesystemencoding()

Chris Down chris at chrisdown.name
Fri Aug 30 17:21:25 CEST 2013


On 2013-08-30 08:04, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> In Windows, sys.getfilesystemencoding() returns 'mbcs' (multibyte code
> system), which doesn't say very much imho.

Well, what's the problem you have with mbcs being the output here? On NT, mbcs
is the encoding that should be used to convert Unicode to a bytestring that is
equivalent when used as a path name, after all.
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