[PATCH] default _fs_enc to 'ascii' when sys.getfilesystemencoding() is nil.

[Bart Teeuwisse]

Martin Pool <mbp <at> canonical.com> writes:

> 
> On  9 Oct 2006, Bart Teeuwisse <bart-gmane <at> thecodemill.biz> wrote:
> > Title and comments below say it all.
> 
> Thanks.  We should assume something if Python returns None, but it could
> plausibly be either ascii or utf-8.  
> 
> Bart, as another data point, what encoding are file names on your
> system?

utf-8 is indeed a better choice. The error occurs on an old(er) FreeBSD machine
w/o locale support.

/Bart