Bazaar-NG traffic #2

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robey Pointer wrote:
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> I think if a filename comes back as a string instead of unicode, it's 
> because python couldn't decode it using the filesystem's encoding.  
> (AFAIK this is mostly a unix problem.*)  In that case if you just 
> pretend the filename is in Latin-1, you will preserve the gibberish 
> filename: Latin-1 defines a unicode char for every possible byte  0-255,
> so it's non-lossy.  The gibberish filename can be  reconstituted as the
> same gibberish on the other end.

Not necessarily.  If it's extracted to a filesystem whose encoding is
Latin-1, you will not get gibberish on the other end.

Aaron

Aaron
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