From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:53:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Comment that getfilesystemencoding returns mbcs even on NT+. Fixes #964870.
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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 8d66c7654e..3b25e5aa41 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}