> 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 _______________________________________________ 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