[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #1869: use surrogateescape to escape filesystem strings in Unicode

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#1869: use surrogateescape to escape filesystem strings in Unicode
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Reporter:  dustin       |       Owner:
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  1.0.+
 Version:  0.8.3p1      |  Resolution:  wontfix
Keywords:  encoding     |
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Changes (by dustin):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix


Comment:

 This isn't actually helpful for Buildbot.  It's intended to allow strings
 from arbitrary filesystems to be losslessly represented by a single type
 (Unicode) in Python.  However, the representation does *not* encode to
 utf8 - it's *only* useful when passing such strings back to the filesystem
 (where they must match byte-for-byte what came from the filesystem).
 Buildbot never does this - it just takes strings and displays them in
 status plugins.

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