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Tue Oct 15 10:53:42 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-October/129576.html

FYI zipfile does do UTF-8
(http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/d7ebe03fa752/Lib/zipfile.py#l368).
Only the non-Unicode encodings might need some help. I like that the
patch is only concerned with decoding. Is it necessary to support
writing non-UTF8 encodings?

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Both issues are related and should be fixed in the *same* commit.
> Python should provide an option to encode explicitly filenames to
> UTF-8. Or maybe better: encode to UTF-8 by default, with an option to
> encode to cp437, and another to encode to an arbitrary encoding.
>
> Victor
>
> 2013/10/15 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Victor Stinner
>> <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I opened an issue proposing exactly the same change, but I didn't provide a
>>> patch.
>>
>> I found this:
>>
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue10614
>>
>> but it has (seemingly incorrect) patch.
>>
>> Also related:
>>
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue10972
>>
>> Victor - is any of these what you had in mind?
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