pep 277, Unicode filenames & mbcs encoding &c.

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In article <bn3jfo$df$1 at news4.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>,
 "vincent wehren" <vincent at visualtrans.de> wrote:

> | Are there any situations where some other encoding should be used instead
> on
> | Windows?  What about other platforms? For instance, does Linux allow
> | non-ascii file names?
> 
> You can use "os.path.supports_unicode_filenames" to check...

Actually, you can't, see:

  http://python.org/sf/767645

The only two platforms that currently support unicode filenames properly 
are Windows NT/XP and MacOSX, and for one of them 
os.path.supports_unicode_filenames returns False :(

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