[Python-Dev] PEP-time ? (Unicode strings as filenames)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

[Martin and Niel discussing various ways to add Unicode support 
to posixmodule]

Guys, this discussion is getting somewhat out of hand. I believe 
that no-one on python-dev is seriously following this anymore,
yet OTOH your are working on a rather important part of the Python
file API.

I'd suggest to write up the problem and your conclusions as a
PEP for everyone to understand before actually starting to
checkin anything.

One thing I'd like to note (again) is that the code base is
getting somewhat confusing in this area. I may be better to
rip out the various bits and pieces for each supported platform
and put the implementations into separate files -- much like
what Greg has done for the DLL import machinery. This will reduce 
the levels of #ifdefs and make the whole API much more readable 
and understandable.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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