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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/tarfile.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/tarfile.py | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 2 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst index c2a9143..b1d7361 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tarfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tarfile.rst @@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ The following variables are available on module level: .. data:: ENCODING - The default character encoding i.e. the value from either - :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding` or :func:`sys.getdefaultencoding`. + The default character encoding: ``'utf-8'`` on Windows, + :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding` otherwise. .. seealso:: diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py index 31967dd..4839eb1 100644 --- a/Lib/tarfile.py +++ b/Lib/tarfile.py @@ -159,9 +159,10 @@ TOEXEC = 0o001 # execute/search by other #--------------------------------------------------------- # initialization #--------------------------------------------------------- -ENCODING = sys.getfilesystemencoding() -if ENCODING is None: - ENCODING = "ascii" +if os.name in ("nt", "ce"): + ENCODING = "utf-8" +else: + ENCODING = sys.getfilesystemencoding() #--------------------------------------------------------- # Some useful functions @@ -421,6 +421,8 @@ C-API Library ------- +- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows. + - Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p). |