[issue767645] incorrect os.path.supports_unicode_filenames

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> I think that supports_unicode_filenames is still useful to check if
> the filesystem API uses bytes (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, ...) or
> characters (Mac OS X, Windows). Mac OS X is a special case because
> the C API uses char* (byte string), but the filesystem encoding is
> fixed to utf-8 and it doesn't accept invalid utf-8 filenames. So I
> would like to say that supports_unicode_filenames should be True on
> Mac OS X (which was the initial request).

Sounds reasonable.

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