[Python-Dev] Unicode strings as filenames

[Skip Montanaro]

    Skip> What's the correct way to deal with filenames in a Unicode
    Skip> environment?  Consider this:

    Skip> [Attempts to use encoding]

    Neil> On Windows NT/2K/XP the right thing to do is to use the wide char
    Neil> open function such as
    Neil>   _CRTIMP FILE * __cdecl _wfopen(const wchar_t *, const wchar_t *);
    Neil>   _CRTIMP int __cdecl _wopen(const wchar_t *, int, ...);

    Neil> There may also be techniques for doing this on Windows 9x as the
    Neil> file system stores Unicode file names but I have never looked into
    Neil> this.

How is this exposed (if at all) to Python programmers?  I happen to be
developing on Linux, but the eventual delivery platform will be Windows.  Is
there no way to handle this in a cross-platform way?

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