Re: Locale breakage on alpha

FYI.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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Date:    Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:16:07 +0100
From:    "M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]>
To:      Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>
cc:      Martin von Loewis <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Quest: Re: [snake-farm] Locale breakage on alpha

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Martin & Marc-Andre,
> 
> Are you following the snake-farm list?  This problem seems in your
> area...

I'm not actively following the list, no. Martin wrote most of the
Unicode filename support.

> The exception is raised within this try block:
> 
>   try:
>       TESTFN_ENCODED = TESTFN_UNICODE.encode(TESTFN_ENCODING)
>   except (ImportError, TypeError):
>       # Either the file system encoding is None, or the file name
>       # cannot be encoded in the file system encoding.
>       raise TestSkipped("No Unicode filesystem semantics on this platform.")
> 
> Maybe the UnicodeEncodeError should be caught here instead (in
> addition)?

The above just seems to check whether TESTFN_UNICODE is representable
using the _ENCODING. If that's the case, then you should tweak
the except to match UnicodeError (encoding found but illegal
chars in FN) and LookupError (encoding could not be found).

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