[Python-Dev] Filename as byte string in python 2.6 or 3.0?

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Mon Sep 29 14:46:27 CEST 2008


On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:34:07 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt at satorlaser.com> wrote:
>On Monday 29 September 2008, glyph at divmod.com wrote:
>> Also, what about MacOS X?
>
>AFAIK, OS X guarantees UTF-8 for filesystem encodings. So the OS also provides
>Unicode filenames and how it deals with broken or legacy media is left up to
>the OS.

Read Jack Jansen's recent email about NFC vs NFD.

Jean-Paul


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