Random832 <random...@fastmail.com>: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016, at 12:50, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> I think Windows also gets it almost write: NTFS uses UTF-16, and (I >> think) only allow valid Unicode file names. > > Nope. Windows allows any sequence of 16-bit units (except for a dozen or > so ASCII characters) in filenames.
Also, somewhat related, Python allows strings to contain non-Unicode code points, namely code points in the surrogate hole. Thus, Python's native character set is a superset of Unicode. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
