[Python-Dev] Support byte string API of Windows in Python3? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Apr 19 22:55:39 CEST 2010

I'm working on surrogates in filenames on Linux (more generally on BSD and UNIX OS) to support undecodable filenames, see PEP 383. Amaury told me that I only fixed the non-Windows versions (I fixed subprocess about the current directory and ctypes.dlopen()), but it doesn't work on Windows.

It's a choice, I didn't want to patch Windows because I know that Windows use unicode internally. I consider that developers using Python3 should use unicode on Windows, and byte or unicode+surrogates on other OS. I don't know well Windows API, and so I would like your opinion about that ;-)

Can you please elaborate what the specific issue is? I completely fail to see what byte strings have to do with surrogate codes. AFAICT, on Windows, you can just use surrogate codes at the APIs, and be done.

Regards, Martin

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