Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > I think that supports_unicode_filenames is still useful to check if > the filesystem API uses bytes (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, ...) or > characters (Mac OS X, Windows). Mac OS X is a special case because > the C API uses char* (byte string), but the filesystem encoding is > fixed to utf-8 and it doesn't accept invalid utf-8 filenames. So I > would like to say that supports_unicode_filenames should be True on > Mac OS X (which was the initial request).
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