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| author | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2016-09-08 17:35:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2016-09-08 17:35:16 (GMT) |
| commit | cc16be85c0b7119854c00fb5c666825deef641cf (patch) | |
| tree | 18b9a8020679f8a0e6e0dd1ecb5668024be499b7 /Doc/using/cmdline.rst | |
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Issue #27781: Change file system encoding on Windows to UTF-8 (PEP 529)
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diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index 37a9e14..2a83bd1 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -672,6 +672,20 @@ conflict. It now has no effect if set to an empty string. +.. envvar:: PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSFSENCODING + + If set to a non-empty string, the default filesystem encoding and errors mode + will revert to their pre-3.6 values of 'mbcs' and 'replace', respectively. + Otherwise, the new defaults 'utf-8' and 'surrogatepass' are used. + + This may also be enabled at runtime with + :func:`sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding()`. + + Availability: Windows + + .. versionadded:: 3.6 + See :pep:`529` for more details. + Debug-mode variables ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |