Bazaar-NG traffic #2

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:33:17AM -0500, John A Meinel wrote:
>David Allouche wrote:
>> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 03:21 -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
>>
>>>= _Always_ Unicode =
>>>
>>>The Unicode discussions continued this week. Last week, Alexander Belchenko
>>>referred to some bzr code that didn't handle Russian filenames properly.
>>>This week Belchenko followed up a couple more times without a response.
>>
>>
>> Something which has been somewhat nagging me...
>>
>> I would like if it were possible to have byte-stream file names. In some
>> situations (e.g. automated imports from CVS) you might end up with file
>> names contaning non-ASCII characters without any encoding information.
>> Trying to interpret those names as unicode is haphazard at best, and
>> likely incorrect.
>>
>> Generally, when getting data from legacy sources, you cannot expect to
>> have encoding information. I would like to read about how CVS handles
>> non-ascii file names, from people who have direct experience with that.
>>
>> To be honest we only once had non-ascii file names in source code
>> repositories in a few hundred mainline imports, but the number are
>> biased since we have been focusing on increasing the number of
>> successful imports, disregarding (numerous) import failures.
>
>Do you have any of these directories/files available? I would be
>curious what this returns:
>
>python -c "import os; print os.listdir(u'.')"
>versus
>python -c "import os; print os.listdir('.')"
>
>The first should try and interpret the names and return unicode, the
>second should just do ascii names (possibly just byte-stream names).

Both return a list containing all the files in the current dir on my
Linux machine. The first one is a list of unicode strings ([u'str1',
u'str2']). The second is a list of regular strings (['str1', 'str2']).
I.e. exactly what you predicted.

/M

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