[issue3187] os.listdir can return byte strings

[Martin v. Löwis]

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

> I agree we also need to
> support bytes strings (at least on Unix) in order to support backup
> routines

How about letting such applications set the file system encoding to
Latin-1?

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