[issue27781] Change sys.getfilesystemencoding() on Windows to UTF-8

[Steve Dower]

New submission from Steve Dower:

I've attached my first pass at a patch to change the file system encoding on Windows to UTF-8 and remove use of the *A APIs.

It would be trivial to change the encoding from UTF-8 back to CP_ACP and change the error mode if that's what we decide is better, but my vote is strongly for an encoding that never drops characters when converted from UTF-16.

Discussion is still ongoing on python-ideas, so let's argue about yes/no and utf-8/mbcs there and just discuss the patch here.

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assignee: steve.dower
components: Windows
files: fsencoding.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 272899
nosy: paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Change sys.getfilesystemencoding() on Windows to UTF-8
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44130/fsencoding.diff

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