On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Ray Jones <crawlzone at gmail.com> wrote: > > subprocess.call(['dolphin', '/my_home/testdir/\u044c\u043e\u0432']) > > Dolphin's error message: 'The file or folder > /my_home/testdir/\u044c\u043e\u0432 does not exist' "\u" only codes a BMP character in unicode literals, i.e. u"unicode literal". You forgot the 'u'.