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Re: [1.7] codepage:utf removal and python
On Apr 2 12:38, Yaakov S wrote:
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> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > And it works as designed in your above testcase.
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> > I tested with a filename containing a Euro sign (Unicode 0x20ac), in
> > HTML speak "qq€". Cygwin converted it to "qq\016\342\202\254"
> >
> > The strace looks perfectly normal. I have no idea what python complains
> > about!
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> Having already rebuilt python for cygwin-1.7, gcc-4.3, and tcl/tk-8.5, I
> built and ran your C code, then:
>
> $ export LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> $ python -c "import os; print os.listdir('.')"
> [..., 'qq\xe2\x82\xac', ...]
Uh, so python needs a rebuild for Cygwin to deal with localized
pathnames correctly. I assume it's missing to call the conversion
functions because they were not available so far.
Corinna
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