[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings

[Hagen Fürstenau]

> That is not a concern. However, it is fundamentally the wrong thing to
> do. Most people rightfully view command line arguments and file names
> as strings, as they use the keyboard to enter them, and the computer
> uses letters from a font to display them. They are not bytes
> conceptually - they are strings in a potentially unknown encoding.

Are you sure that "strings in an unknown encoding" are conceptually 
strings and not rather bytes?

And what if we skillfully conserve unknown bytes in a private use or 
surrogate area and the application author actually knows the encoding 
and wants correctly decoded strings?

- Hagen


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