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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2004-06-16 04:53:46 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2004-06-16 04:53:46 (GMT) |
| commit | 64af6c545c67972fc492af5a69223f6ac46982b5 (patch) | |
| tree | cea74054246ff247d69435aac3c709a4f0ddcfe3 | |
| parent | aefde435efb8e99c74ad147e1a1db76fe5de61aa (diff) | |
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Comment that getfilesystemencoding returns mbcs even on NT+. Fixes #964870.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex index 8d66c76..3b25e5a 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsys.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsys.tex @@ -228,7 +228,10 @@ It is always available. according to the result of nl_langinfo(CODESET), or None if the nl_langinfo(CODESET) failed. \item On Windows NT+, file names are Unicode natively, so no conversion - is performed. + is performed. \code{getfilesystemencoding} still returns ``mbcs'', + as this is the encoding that applications should use when they + explicitly want to convert Unicode strings to byte strings that + are equivalent when used as file names. \end{itemize} \versionadded{2.3} \end{funcdesc} |