[Tutor] UTF-8 filenames encountered in os.walk
William O'Higgins Witteman
hmm at woolgathering.cx
Tue Jul 3 17:57:03 CEST 2007
I have several programs which traverse a Windows filesystem with French
characters in the filenames.
I have having trouble dealing with these filenames when outputting these
paths to an XML file - I get UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't
decode byte 0xe9 ... etc. That happens when I try to convert to UTF-8.
I know what os will give me UFT-8 if I give it UTF-8, and I am trying to
do that, but somewhere down the line it seems like it reverts to ASCII,
and then I get these errors.
Has anyone found a silver bullet for ensuring that all the filenames
encountered by os.walk are treated as UTF-8? Thanks.
--
yours,
William
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