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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2010-05-15 12:27:16 (GMT)
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Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #8610: Load file system codec at startup, and display a fatal error on
+ failure. Set the file system encoding to utf-8 (instead of None) if getting
+ the locale encoding failed, or if nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is missing.
+
- PyFile_FromFd() uses PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault() instead of
PyUnicode_FromString() to support surrogates in the filename and use the
right encoding