Commit 1bd797a2 authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Fix a typo, consistently spell ASCII in all caps, and insert blank

lines between paragraphs in Mark Hammond's news item about the default
encoding in posixmodule.  Resist the temptation to reflow paragraphs.
parent 26cffde4
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- Some operating systems now support the concept of a default Unicode
encoding for file system operations. Notably, Windows supports 'mbcs'
as the default. The Macintosh will also adopt this concept in the medium
term, altough the default encoding for that platform will be other than
term, although the default encoding for that platform will be other than
'mbcs'.
On operating system that support non-ascii filenames, it is common for
On operating system that support non-ASCII filenames, it is common for
functions that return filenames (such as os.listdir()) to return Python
string objects pre-encoded using the default file system encoding for
the platform. As this encoding is likely to be different from Python's
......@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ Core
it back to the Operating System would result in a Unicode error, as Python
would attempt to use its default encoding (generally ASCII) rather than
the default encoding for the file system.
In general, this change simply removes surprises when working with
Unicode and the file system, making these operations work as you expect,
increasing the transparency of Unicode objects in this context.
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