[issue8514] Create fsencode() and fsdecode() functions in os.path

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

New short, simple and clean path: add os.fsencode() for Unix only.

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Don't create it for Windows to encourage the usage of unicode on Windows (and use MBCS is a bad idea). fsdecode() was a also bad idea: it's better to keep bytes unchanged on Unix, and it's now possible thanks to os.environb and os.getenvb().

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17241/fsencode.patch

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