[Duplicity-talk] unicode support strategy

[Radim Tobolka]

Hi,
going through the code, I see you've decided not to perform byte/unicode 
conversion on I/O boundaries, but rather work with byte filenames and 
convert to unicode when needed. Is absence of surrogateescape codec 
error handler in py2 sole reason for this?

I believe there is way to implement fsencode/fsdecode with 
surrogateescape behavior even in py2, see attachment.

I believe, it is now possible to convert from bytes as soon as possible 
and work internally with unicode. In my opinion, this leads to tight and 
elegant patch, that will work well both in py2 and 3. I even have 
stitched something along those lines already. I'd love to complete it, 
provided you find this approach acceptable.

Have a great day,
Radim.

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