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Wed Apr 29 23:19:25 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-April/089221.html

> The whole purpose of PEP 383 is to send the exact same bytes that were
> read from the OS back to the OS => violating (2) (for whatever the
> apparent system file-encoding is, not limited to UTF-8), and that has
> overwhelmingly popular support.
> 
> Note that this won't happen automatically, either, AIUI.  The PEP's
> proposed implementation is as an error handler, and this would need to
> be specified explicitly.  It's not intended to be the default.

Actually, no: the error handler will be automatically used in all places
that convert file names to bytes. I have clarified the PEP to make that
explicit. IOW, it replaces the current "strict" setting in these cases.

Regards,
Martin

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