[Pythonmac-SIG] how to delete files which special characters on Mac OS 10.3

[Arthur Elsenaar]

On Jan 12, 2004, at 21:41, Dr. L. Humbert wrote:

> 'SIIHamm,G\xed\xb6\x86\xed\xbb\xa9chu.a.rtf'
> I wanted to delete those files with the finder (via trash),
> but I had no success.
>     error -43
> Ok, so I decided to open a terminal and tried
>     rm -rf *
> in the directory, where those files "live".
> But -- it did'nt work.

I've exactly the same problem with some files containing 'illegal' 
characters in the file name. In my case most of these files are in the 
german language and contain umlauts. They just sit there and I can't 
delete them, I tried most of the ways you describe here, but to no 
afail.

Mostly these files were saved by nicotine (pyslsk) on X11, a python 
peer-to-peer filesharing app. It clearly is a bug in OS X, but does 
anyone know how to get rid of files that are listed, but when you try 
deleting them don't exist?

Thanks, Arthur.