[Python-Dev] Support byte string API of Windows in Python3?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'm working on surrogates in filenames on Linux (more generally on BSD and 
> UNIX OS) to support undecodable filenames, see PEP 383. Amaury told me that I 
> only fixed the non-Windows versions (I fixed subprocess about the current 
> directory and _ctypes.dlopen()), but it doesn't work on Windows.
> 
> It's a choice, I didn't want to patch Windows because I know that Windows use 
> unicode internally. I consider that developers using Python3 should use 
> unicode on Windows, and byte or unicode+surrogates on other OS.
> 
> I don't know well Windows API, and so I would like your opinion about that ;-)

Can you please elaborate what the specific issue is? I completely fail
to see what byte strings have to do with surrogate codes. AFAICT, on
Windows, you can just use surrogate codes at the APIs, and be done.

Regards,
Martin