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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} |