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Group the Windows entries in getfilesystemencoding doc, move the win 9x one at the bottom of the list and fix some markup.

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Ezio Melotti 2010-04-29 16:07:20 +00:00
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@ -379,17 +379,19 @@ always available.
file names, or ``None`` if the system default encoding is used. The result value
depends on the operating system:
* On Windows 9x, the encoding is "mbcs".
* On Mac OS X, the encoding is "utf-8".
* On Mac OS X, the encoding is ``'utf-8'``.
* On Unix, the encoding is the user's preference according to the result of
nl_langinfo(CODESET), or :const:`None` if the ``nl_langinfo(CODESET)`` failed.
nl_langinfo(CODESET), or ``None`` if the ``nl_langinfo(CODESET)``
failed.
* On Windows NT+, file names are Unicode natively, so no conversion is
performed. :func:`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.
performed. :func:`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.
* On Windows 9x, the encoding is ``'mbcs'``.
.. versionadded:: 2.3