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authorMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2004-06-16 04:53:46 (GMT)
committerMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2004-06-16 04:53:46 (GMT)
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Comment that getfilesystemencoding returns mbcs even on NT+. Fixes #964870.
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@@ -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}