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Reopened, because the same test is still failing on Win98SE, 
but for a different reason.

The traceback is identical, except that it's now failing in the 
listcomp on the line following the line it used to fail on:

  File ".../lib/test/test_unicode_file.py", line 50, in _do_single
    file_list = [unicodedata.normalize("NFD", f) for f in file_list]
TypeError: normalized() argument 2 must be unicode, not str


filename is
u'@test-\xe0\xf2'

os.path.abspath(filename) is
u'C:\\Code\\python\\PC\\VC6\\@test-\xe0\xf2'

new_base is
u'@test-a\u0300o\u0300'

The problem now is that the first name in file_list is
'CVS'

so

[unicodedata.normalize("NFD", f) for f in file_list]

is passing an 8-bit string to normalize().  Earlier code in the 
test *appears* to assume that if filename is Unicode, then 
os.listdir() will return a list of Unicode strings.  But file_list is a 
list of 153 8-bit strings on this box.