From: Martin v. Löwis Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:53:46 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Comment that getfilesystemencoding returns mbcs even on NT+. Fixes #964870. X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~174 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64af6c545c67972fc492af5a69223f6ac46982b5;p=python Comment that getfilesystemencoding returns mbcs even on NT+. Fixes #964870. --- 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}