[Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?

[Greg Ewing]

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

> AFAIK, OS X guarantees UTF-8 for filesystem encodings. So the OS also provides 
> Unicode filenames and how it deals with broken or legacy media is left up to 
> the OS.

Does this mean that the OS always returns valid utf-8 strings
from filesystem calls, even if the media is broken or legacy?

-- 
Greg