Re: [Docutils-develop] DependencyList encoding

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2011-12-12, Martin Bless wrote:
> to cut a long story short: The answer is, well, not 42, but UTF-8!

> I've done a lot of (re)search and testing now and I'm absolutely sure
> that nothing else makes sense. 

You convinced me. (With a little help by David A. Wheeler
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html).

Encoding the dependency_record file in utf8 is

* simple, save, portable
* works out of the box in many cases.
* not specific to Python, easy to recode (see example in config.txt)
* backwards compatible with the "ascii" encoding used in releases <= 0.8.

The alternative would be guesswork (locale_encoding or
sys.filesystemencoding if not 'mcbs').

See Revision 7256 for the implementation, test, and documentation.

I hope this fixes the remaining issues.

Günter