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An update from Neil, who writes: 

Removed unicodefilenames function as semantics unclear on other
    platforms.  Commented on future compatibilty with 4 byte Unicode.
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@ -66,12 +66,6 @@ Specification
this proposal, it will return a list of Unicode strings when its this proposal, it will return a list of Unicode strings when its
path argument is Unicode. path argument is Unicode.
To allow client code to determine that these features are
implemented, the unicodefilenames function is provided. This
function returns true when the underlying system supports file
names containing most Unicode characters and any valid file name
may be passed to open as a Unicode string.
Restrictions Restrictions
@ -89,7 +83,10 @@ Restrictions
type and Py_UNICODE_SIZE to be 4. As the Windows API does not type and Py_UNICODE_SIZE to be 4. As the Windows API does not
accept 4 byte characters, the features described in this proposal accept 4 byte characters, the features described in this proposal
will not work in this mode so the implementation falls back to the will not work in this mode so the implementation falls back to the
current 'mbcs' encoding technique. current 'mbcs' encoding technique. This retriction could be lifted
in the future by performing extra conversions using
PyUnicode_AsWideChar but for now that would add too much
complexity for a very rarely used feature.
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