[Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode Filenames on the Mac

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 14, 2005, at 9:17 AM, Nick Matsakis wrote:

>
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>
>> HFS actually uses UTF-16 internally, but the POSIX layer is UTF-8.
>> It will bite you if you expect the code to work on other platforms.
>> Not all platforms use UTF-8 for their filesystem encoding.
>>
>
> I don't care about other platforms, but I assume from your message  
> that
> sending 'unicode' strings to system modules is safe (and a best  
> practice
> too?).

yes

-bob