[MERGE] better support of unicode paths on Windows

[Alexander Belchenko]

Martin (gzlist) пишет:
> On 07/07/2009, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
>> I wrote required fix, see:
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~bialix/bzr/lock-unicode-win32/+merge/8297
> 
> Confusing, was going to use this as a chance to try out the launchpad
> way of doing merges and reviews, but see that one is "Superseded" and
> has no link to the new request.
> 
> Poking around the +approvedmerges area I find it's already been
> handled, so no need for me to say "fix is correct and how I would have
> written it, but seems to have some code from another patch mixed in".

This is why I've forced to resubmit it. I'm not quite grok the LP review 
UI yet.

> https://code.launchpad.net/~bialix/bzr/lock-unicode-win32/+merge/8305
> 
> Your responses to John's review questions are good as well. I do plan
> to make ctypes the default when I get to moving things around. (It's
> actually not any slower in practice and is more flexible as well as a
> default package in 2.5 onwards).

Well, as I said many times: "OS locks must die", so I'm indifferent to 
change the default here.