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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ Core - Some operating systems now support the concept of a default Unicode encoding for file system operations. Notably, Windows supports 'mbcs' as the default. The Macintosh will also adopt this concept in the medium - term, altough the default encoding for that platform will be other than + term, although the default encoding for that platform will be other than 'mbcs'. - On operating system that support non-ascii filenames, it is common for + + On operating system that support non-ASCII filenames, it is common for functions that return filenames (such as os.listdir()) to return Python string objects pre-encoded using the default file system encoding for the platform. As this encoding is likely to be different from Python's @@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ Core it back to the Operating System would result in a Unicode error, as Python would attempt to use its default encoding (generally ASCII) rather than the default encoding for the file system. + In general, this change simply removes surprises when working with Unicode and the file system, making these operations work as you expect, increasing the transparency of Unicode objects in this context. |