[Python-Dev] Unicode strings as filenames

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@v.loewis.de> said:
> >    This change works for me on Windows 2000 and allows access to all files
> > no matter what the current code page is set to. On Windows 9x (not yet
> > tested), the _wfopen call should fail causing a fallback to fopen. Possibly
> > the OS should be detected instead and _wfopen not attempted on 9x. 
> 
> Now that you have that change, please try to extend it to
> posixmodule.c. This is where I gave up. Notice that, with changing
> Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding and open() alone, you have worsened the
> situation: os.stat will now fail on files with non-ASCII names on
> which it works under the mbcs encoding, because windows won't find the
> file (correct me if I'm wrong).

Could someone who really understands this issue (Martin?) perhaps
write a test case for this? I think something like creating a file
with some nonascii chars in the name, and verifying that open(),
readdir(), os.stat() and various others work as expected is what would
be needed (but I'm not sure I fully understand it:-).
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