[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

[Antoine Pitrou]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> If the binary APIs are missing from a major platform (i.e. Windows) then
> the choice to use them brings with it a major cross-platform portability
> problem that should really be handled by the standard library.

+1

I might also add that providing binary APIs does not prevent us to implement
some special representation of broken filenames when using the unicode APIs (for
example using private Unicode characters - I'm not sure what the right
terminology is - as sometimes suggested).

Regards

Antoine.