[Python-3000] New proposition for Python3 bytes filename issue

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Victor Stinner schrieb:
>>> On Windows, we might reject bytes filenames for all file operations: open(),
>>> unlink(), os.path.join(), etc. (raise a TypeError or UnicodeError)
>>
>> Since I've seen no objections to this yet: please no. If we offer a
>> "lower-level" bytes filename API, it should work for all platforms.
> 
> I'm not sure either way. I've heard it claim that Windows filesystem
> APIs use Unicode natively. Does Python 3.0 on Windows currently
> support filenames expressed as bytes? Are they encoded first before
> passing to the Unicode APIs? Using what encoding?

Oh, ok. I had assumed Windows just uses a fixed encoding without the problem
of misencoded filenames.

Georg


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