> OK, so what's wrong with os.listdir() and similar functions returning a
> unicode string for strings that correctly encode/decode, and with byte
> strings for strings that are not valid unicode? 

See http://bugs.python.org/issue3187
in particular msg71655

Regards,
Martin

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