[Python-Dev] PEP 383 update: utf8b is now the error handler

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 6 May 2009 at 13:40, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen <at> xemacs.org> writes:
>>
>> Nothing is lost compared to 'strict', true, but under the PEP as it is
>> a large fraction of Shift JIS and Big5 filenames cannot be read under
>> ASCII-compatible file system encodings using 'utf8b'.
>
> You should really be more specific. I'm not sure about others, but I don't
> understand what filenames you are talking about.

Seems to me that the best thing to do would be to file a bug report with
test cases that demonstrate the problems when run against the current
py3k trunk.

Especially the security issues you cite (which I don't understand).

--David