At 09:25 PM 9/15/2009, Mark Tolonen wrote:
"jeffunit" wrote in message
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I wrote a program that diffs files and prints out matching file names.
I will be executing the output with sh, to delete select files.
Most of the files names are plain ascii, but about 10% of them have unicode
characters in them. When I try to print the string containing the name, I get
an exception:
'ascii' codec can't encode character '\udce9'
in position 37: ordinal not in range(128)
The string is:
'./Julio_Iglesias-Un_Hombre_Solo-05-Qu\udce9_no_se_rompa_la_noche.mp3'
This is on a windows xp system, using python 3.1 which I compiled
with the cygwin
linux compatability layer tool.
Can you tell me what encoding I need to print \udce9 and how to set python to
that encoding mode?
That looks like a "surrogate escape" (See PEP 383)
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0383/. It indicates the wrong
encoding was used to decode the filename.
That seems likely. How do I set the encoding to something correct to
decode the filename?
Clearly windows knows how to display it.
I suspect since I complied python with cygwin, that it is using a
POSIX standard,
rather than a windows specific standard. Of course ideally, I would
like my code to work
on linux as well as windows, as I back up all of my data to a linux
machine with
samba.
thanks,
jeff
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