[Tim] > Mark (or anyone else who understands all this), were doc changes included? > Can someone please add a briefer user-oriented blurb to Misc/NEWS too? No problem. Where should the "real" documentation go? It seems maybe we need a new sub-heading under the "6.1 - os -- Misc. OS Interface" - something like: 6.1.x - Unicode and the file system - general discussion. - Windows specific - Mac specific should that appear. - OS' with no special support (ie, "the rest") Does that make sense? I have made this change to Misc/NEWS. Does this look OK (obviously once I know what to replace "[????]" with :) And-I-will-do-the-registry-docs-at-the-same-time ly, Mark. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.166 diff -r1.166 NEWS 4a5,21 > - Some operating systems now support the concept of a default Unicode > encoding for file system operations. Notably, Windows supports 'mbcs' > as the default. The Macintosh will also adopt this concept in the medium > term, altough the default encoding for that platform will be other than > 'mbcs'. > On operating system that support non-ascii filenames, it is common for > functions that return filenames (such as os.listdir()) to return Python > string objects pre-encoded using the default file system encoding for > the platform. As this encoding is likely to be different from Python's > default encoding, converting this name to a Unicode object before passing > it back to the Operating System would result in a Unicode error, as Python > would attempt to use it's default encoding (generally ASCII) rather > than the default encoding for the file system. > In general, this change simply removes surprises when working with > Unicode and the file system, making these operations work as > you expect, increasing the transparency of Unicode objects in this context. > See [????] for more details, including examples.
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