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Author pitrou
Recipients ixokai, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, pjenvey, ronaldoussoren, vstinner
Date 2010-10-11.16:08:54
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> However, I completely fail to see the advantage that the
> PYTHONFSENCODING variable has over the LANG variable. If it's
> possible to set PTHONFSENCODING in some application, it surely
> is also possible to set LANG (or LC_CTYPE), no? Setting the
> latter also gives you the advantage that environment variables
> and command line arguments use the same encoding as file names.

I guess LANG and LC_CTYPE can be used for other purposes such as
internationalization.
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Date User Action Args
2010-10-11 16:08:56pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, lemburg, loewis, ixokai, ronaldoussoren, vstinner, pjenvey
2010-10-11 16:08:55pitroulinkissue9992 messages
2010-10-11 16:08:54pitroucreate