[Python-3000] PEP 3137 plan of attack (stage 3)

[Christian Heimes]

Jim Jewett wrote:
> One likely difference is that testäöü should be a legitimate (unicode)
> Python name, but testõ÷³ probably isn't, because the division sign
> isn't alphanumeric.
> 
> Also, there is a chance that testäöü was already in the appropriate
> normalized form, but testõ÷³ probably isn't, because of the
> superscript.
> 
> Whether either of these *should* matter in this case, I couldn't tell
> from your post.

I'm neither a Windows expert nor an experienced Windows developer. I'm
just guessing here. Could it be that Python is using the char* NameA API
methods instead of the wide wchar_t * NameW methods?

Christian