Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment:

PEP 277 explicitly states that unicode strings should be passed to 
wide-character functions, whereas byte strings use "standard" functions.
This is done in posixmodule.c, for example.

The "current locale" is a moving thing.

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