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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2012-12-03 11:47:59 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2012-12-03 11:47:59 (GMT)
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Issue #16416: On Mac OS X, operating system data are now always
encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding (which may be ASCII if no locale environment variable is set), to avoid inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are already using UTF-8/surrogateescape.
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@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ What's New in Python 3.2.4
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #16416: On Mac OS X, operating system data are now always
+ encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding
+ (which may be ASCII if no locale environment variable is set), to avoid
+ inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are
+ already using UTF-8/surrogateescape.
+
- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread.h
- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line