Actually, I think I'm wrong about python's behavior, at least now; it doesn't omit the files, and instead does something with surrogates. On Linux: >>> b'

Actually, I think I'm wrong about python's behavior, at least now; it doesn't omit the files, and instead does something with surrogates. On Linux: >>> b'\xc0'.decode('utf-8') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc0 in position 0: invalid start byte >>> open(b'\xc0', 'w').write('foo') 3 >>> os.listdir() ['\udcc0'] >>> open(b'\xc0').read() 'foo' >>> open('\udcc0').read() 'foo'