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Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Ulli Horlacher
<framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
> Ehhh... I started Python programming some weeks ago and I know nearly
> nothing about Windows. I am a UNIX and VMS guy :-)

You should feel right at home, then. The Windows NT kernel was
designed and implemented by a team of former DEC engineers led by
David Cutler, who was one of the principle architects of VMS. There's
an old joke that W[indows] NT is VMS + 1. Actually, you'd probably
only notice a slight resemblance if you were coding a driver [1].
Microsoft discourages using the native NT API in user mode.

Windows client DLLs such as kernel32.dll usually implement an API
function in one of three ways, or in combination:

    using the native runtime library and loader functions
    (Rtl* & Ldr* in ntdll.dll)

    calling system services such as

        Nt* public APIs (ntdll.dll => ntoskrnl.exe)
        NtUser* & NtGdi* private APIs
        (user32.dll, gdi32.dll => win32k.sys)

    using a local procedure call (via ALPC or a driver) to a
    subsystem process such as

        csrss.exe    - Windows client/server runtime
        conhost.exe  - console host
        services.exe - service control manager
        lsass.exe    - local security authority
        smss.exe     - session manager

But this is all an implementation detail. The API could be implemented
in a totally different way in a totally different environment, such as
running WINE on Linux.

[1]: http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-rest-story

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cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-14 16:24 +0000
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-14 13:34 -0500
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-12-14 11:07 -0800
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 12:45 -0600
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-14 19:51 +0100
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-14 22:11 +0000
      Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-14 23:41 +0100
        Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-15 01:07 +0100
        Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 21:20 -0600
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 17:55 -0600
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-15 01:13 +0100
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-15 08:26 +0000
      Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-15 15:09 +0100
      Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 09:34 -0600
        Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-15 17:04 +0000
          Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 21:39 -0600
          Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename smap <askme.first@thankyouverymuch.invalid> - 2015-12-18 21:15 +0000
  cannot open file with non-ASCII filename bearmingo <bearmingo@gmail.com> - 2015-12-17 21:12 -0800
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-18 01:37 -0500

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