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Author	ezio.melotti
Recipients	Atle.Pedersen, ezio.melotti
Date	2012-01-05.20:23:11
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Message-id	<1325794992.66.0.774129359074.issue13717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On Python 3, os.walk() uses the surrogateescape error handler. If the filename is in e.g. iso-8859-* and the filesystem encoding is UTF-8, decoding '\xe5' will then result in '\udce5', and '\udce5' can't then be printed because it's a lone surrogate. See also http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#file-names-command-line-arguments-and-environment-variables

On Python 3, os.walk() uses the surrogateescape error handler.  If the filename is in e.g. iso-8859-* and the filesystem encoding is UTF-8, decoding '\xe5' will then result in '\udce5', and '\udce5' can't then be printed because it's a lone surrogate.

See also http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#file-names-command-line-arguments-and-environment-variables

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-01-05 20:23:12	ezio.melotti	set	recipients: + ezio.melotti, Atle.Pedersen
2012-01-05 20:23:12	ezio.melotti	set	messageid: <1325794992.66.0.774129359074.issue13717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-01-05 20:23:12	ezio.melotti	link	issue13717 messages
2012-01-05 20:23:11	ezio.melotti	create