[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 277: Unicode file name support for Windows NT, was PEP-time ? ... (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@oratrix.nl
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:09:20 +0100

On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 08:31 PM, Neil Hodgson wrote:

What kind of checks do you have in mind then ? If possible, it should be possible to pass unicodefilenames() a path to check for Unicode- capability, since on Unix (and probably Mac OS X as well), the path decides which file system get's the ioctrl calls. Any platform experts know how this works on MacOS X or BeOS? Do non-native file systems get mapped to Unicode names so that UTF-8 will always work?

For Mac OS X: yes, that is how it is supposed to work.