[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-404539 ] os.listdir() can't grok Unicode filename

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Bugs #404539, was updated on 2001-02-27 01:15
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Category: Unicode
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Itamar S.T.
Assigned to: Mark Hammond
Summary: os.listdir() can't grok Unicode filename

Initial Comment:
I have a file whose name is part Hebrew, part English
on my W2K VMware install. Filenames on Win2000 are
Unicode, if I'm not mistaken. I'm running BeOpen Python
2.0, with the latest Pythonwin installed.

My problem - the os.listdir() command doesn't return
the name of the file in unicode, it just replaces the
hebrew characters with question marks - '?':

>>> l = os.listdir("c:\")
>>> l[-1]
'????.txt'
>>> type(l[-1])
<type 'string'>

Perhaps the os.listdir() function could be extended
with a unicode keyword, which would tell it to return
the filenames as unicode strings?

	filenames = os.listdir(path, unicode=1)



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Comment By: Tim Peters
Date: 2001-02-28 11:29

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Assigned to MarkH in case he has a clue.  The core Python 
code doesn't know about any of MS's TCHAR-related tricks 
(it uses plain 8-bit C strings everywhere).

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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr.
Date: 2001-02-28 11:13

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Tim, are you familiar with the directory searching functions under Windows?  Can you determine the right thing to do?

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