[issue3023] Problem with invalidly-encoded command-line arguments (Unix)
STINNER Victor
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Sat Jan 3 00:58:49 CET 2009
STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> By the password database, I mean /etc/passwd or replacements that
> are accessible via getpwnam() and friends. Users are often
> allowed to change things like the GECOS field, and can generally
> stick any old junk in there, regardless of encoding.
I started to patch pwd module to return bytes instead of unicode, but I didn't
finished my work and the lost it :-/ Today, most UNIX uses UTF-8 as the
default charset. About GECOS: is it really used? If you have real problems,
open a new issue as proposed by Martin.
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