# create this path.
# it could be made by any application but including this line
# so encoding is not confused.
# c:\äöü
__import__("os").mkdir(b'c:\\\xe4\xf6\xfc')

# Now create a new script and save in the newly created dir
c:\äöü\test.py

# In c:\äöü\test.py add the following line
__import__("os").listdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))


# Now run the script from the command line using its absolute path.
c:\Python31\python.exe c:\äöü\test.py

--- This gives an error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "m:\\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3¼\test.py", line 2, in <module>
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'm:\\\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3¼\\*.*'


This is a bug because a script should be able to inspect the path where it is located.

Much work has been done on non-ASCII paths in 3.2.  Can you test this with the 3.2 alpha and let us know the results?

This is fixed in 3.2a4.

Great!