[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings

[Hagen Fürstenau]

>> sys.argv could be of type bytes and sys.arguments (or whatever) could be 
>> a function taking an encoding parameter (which defaults to UTF-8) and 
>> returning strings.
>>
> It would be pretty disruptive to ask everyone to change
> their habit of thinking of sys.argv as a list of strings.

The idea behind this was that it would preserve the non-decoding 
behaviour of the present sys.argv and put the new behaviour into a new 
function.

Also "argv" sounds more low-level than something like "arguments". But 
of course, "argbytes" sounds even more low-level. :-)

- Hagen