[issue4213] Lower case file system encoding

STINNER Victor report at bugs.python.org
Thu Oct 30 23:43:14 CET 2008


STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

Le Thursday 30 October 2008 23:14:21 Martin v. Löwis, vous avez écrit :
> I can't agree with that evaluation. In cases where Python would fail
> without this patch (i.e. because the file system encoding cannot be
> found during startup),

My patch doesn't change the way how Python get the file system encoding: it 
just gets the "Python charset name" (eg. "utf-8" instead of "UTF8", 
or "iso8859-1" instead of "latin-1"). The goal was to enable the 
optimizations, especially with utf-8. It's not related to #3723.

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