Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > If the binary APIs are missing from a major platform (i.e. Windows) then > the choice to use them brings with it a major cross-platform portability > problem that should really be handled by the standard library.
+1 I might also add that providing binary APIs does not prevent us to implement some special representation of broken filenames when using the unicode APIs (for example using private Unicode characters - I'm not sure what the right terminology is - as sometimes suggested). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
