[Python-Dev] Inconsistencies if locale and filesystem encodings are different

Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Thu Oct 7 18:44:19 CEST 2010


On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:35:09PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> It is well possible that the two are different. Mac OS X is
> just one example. Another common example is having a Unix
> account using the C locale (=ASCII) while working on a UTF-8
> file system.

   My filesystems are always koi8-r, but sometimes I work with programs in
utf-8 locale. Just an example...

Oleg.
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