I'm a bit late to join in this discussion, but if unicode filenames
are going to be the normal mode, how about this whole normalized/
canonical business?
This is a headache that has shown up on the Mac a couple of times,
because MacOS prefers filenames to be NFC, whereas Python prefers its
Unicode to be NFD (or the other way around, I keep forgetting the
details).
To make the problem worse, even though MacOS prefers its filenames in
the one form, it will allow filenames in the other form (which can
happen if you mount a foreign filesystem, for example over the net).
The fact that "incorrect" filenames can exist mean that the simple
solution of converting NFC<->NFD in Python's open() and friends won't
work (or, at least, it'll make some filenames inaccessible, and
listdir() may return filenames that don't exist).
--
Jack Jansen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma
Goldman
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