[Python-Dev] Python-3.0, unicode, and os.environ

Sun Dec 7 10:19:52 CET 2008

> If the Unicode APIs only have correct unicode, sure. If not you'll
> get errors translating to UTF-8 (and the byte APIs are supposed to
> pass bad names through unaltered.) Kinda ironic, no?

As far as I can see all Python Unicode strings can be encoded to UTF-8,
even things like lone surrogates because Python doesn't care about them.
So both the Unicode API and the binary API would be fail-safe on Windows.
- Hagen