Chewing international (unicode) filenames on windows?

[Mark Hammond]

Andrew Markebo wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am messing a bit with my bookmarks (gonna sync them between a bunch
> of computers and browsers) and now comes the question.. How does
> os.listdir in the windows-compiled python handle international
> characters?
> 
> For me on my windows 2000 machine, to get them into UTF-8 format I do
> something like:
> 
> for filename in os.listdir():
>         utffilename=unicode(filename, "latin-1").encode("utf-8")

          utffilename=unicode(filename, "mbcs").encode("utf-8")

should work.

> p.s.2 what is the status on win9x? Give it up or ;-)

I *think* it still works when accessing a Unicode aware file system (ie, 
network)

Mark.