[Yum-devel] [PATCH] non-ascii pw_name => cachedir => lockfile. BZ 832195

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jun 15 15:01:11 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 12:19 +0200, Zdeněk Pavlas wrote:
> Convert pw_name to unicode.  This turns cachedirs to unicode
> which may feel bad, but Python seems to handle unicode paths
> correctly (uses utf8 codec instead of ascii).

 But then that infects every other string that the path interacts with.
It would need much less testing to test if the username is going to make
python commit unicide, and if so use uid instead.



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