[issue8611] Python3 doesn't support locale different than utf8 and an non-ASCII path (POSIX)

[Andrew Svetlov]

Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov at gmail.com> added the comment:

I'm skeptical about surrogates particularly for that problem.
>From my perspective the solution is only to use native unicode support for windows file operation functions.
Conversions utf-8 -> mbcs -> utf8 will loose encoding information thanks to tricky Microsoft mbcs encoding schema.
If I'm wrong please correct me.

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