File Path Function Arguments
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A pygame function or method which takes a file path argument will accept
either a Unicode or a byte (8-bit or ASCII character) string.
Unicode strings are translated to Python's default filesystem encoding,
as returned by sys.getfilesystemencoding().  A Unicode code point
above U+FFFF (``\uFFFF``) can be coded directly with a 32-bit escape sequences
(``\Uxxxxxxxx``), even for Python interpreters built with an UCS-2
(16-bit character) Unicode type.  Byte strings are passed
to the operating system unchanged.

Null characters (``\x00``) are not permitted in the path, raising an exception.
An exception is also raised if an Unicode file path cannot be encoded.
How UTF-16 surrogate codes are handled is Python-interpreter-dependent.
Use UTF-32 code points and 32-bit escape sequences instead.
The exception types are function-dependent.