[tahoe-dev] String encoding in tahoe

[zooko]

Hm...

Okay, after testing on my Macbook Pro, I committed François's patch  
[1], and some related patches of my own [2, 3, 4].  This fixed the  
cli tests on Ubuntu Feisty -- hooray!  But it broke the test on  
cygwin, GNU/OpenSolaris, Windows, and ArchLinux -- boo!  See the  
buildbot for details [5].

I guess that it is incorrect to assume that the Python strings that  
appear in sys.argv are utf-8 encoded.  They could be in some other  
encoding.  Although even if that is a problem, that might not be the  
problem that is currently breaking GNU/OpenSolaris and Windows.  Any  
ideas?  I'm pretty fuzzy on unicode issues.

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/changeset/3309
[2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/changeset/3306
[3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/changeset/3307
[4] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/changeset/3308
[5] http://allmydata.org/buildbot/waterfall
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