Unicode File Names

[John Machin]

On Oct 18, 5:57 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Should the note be removed, or should it say something like "Unicode
> > file names are supported. New in Python 2.6."? Is there anything else
> > that should be mentioned?
>
> The note should be corrected, documenting the behaviour implemented.
>
> > More on cp437: I see where you mentioned to the patch author that a
> > unicode string should be encoded in cp437 if possible, but this was
> > not done -- it first tries ascii. What are your views on what encoding
> > should be assumed if the utf8 flag is not set?
>

[lots of enlightenment snipped]

Thanks heaps, Martin.
Cheers,
John