> If the Unicode APIs only have correct unicode, sure.  If not you'll
> get errors translating to UTF-8 (and the byte APIs are supposed to
> pass bad names through unaltered.)  Kinda ironic, no?

As far as I can see all Python Unicode strings can be encoded to UTF-8,
even things like lone surrogates because Python doesn't care about them.
So both the Unicode API and the binary API would be fail-safe on Windows.

- Hagen

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