Chewing international (unicode) filenames on windows?

[Martin v. Loewis]

Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> writes:

> > p.s.2 what is the status on win9x? Give it up or ;-)
> 
> I *think* it still works when accessing a Unicode aware file system
> (ie, network)

Doesn't even a local FAT32 file system expose file names in CP_ACP? So
"mbcs" should work everywhere.

With PEP 277, you can get Unicode file names if you pass a Unicode
directory to listdir.

Regards,
Martin