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Author loewis
Recipients ixokai, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, pjenvey, ronaldoussoren, vstinner
Date 2010-10-09.10:47:46
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> The most likely values to be non-ASCII are, therefore, file paths. So it
> would make sense to also use the filesystem encoding for environment
> variables (so as to satisfy the common case).

-1. Environment variables are typically set in a text editor or on
the command line, so they will typically have the locale's encoding.

Applications that wish to support the case that fsencoding != locale
can recode the file names if desired, or use environb in the first
place.

If the mere existence of the fsname encoding leads to that much
confusion, I think I also support its removal.
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