On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>
>> You shouldn't encode a string argument you've declared as c_wchar_p
>> (i.e. wintypes.LPCWSTR, i.e. type 'Z').
>
> Ok, yes, that was plain stupid of me.
On Windows, CPython 3.3 presents a twist. sizeof(c_wchar) is 2, but
sys.maxunicod
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam
> wrote:
>>
>> So MBCS is just a collective noun for whatever happens to be the
>> installed/available codepage of the host computer (at least with
>> CP_ACP)?
>
> To be clear, the "mbcs" encoding in Python uses CP_ACP. MBCS means
> multibyt
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>
>So MBCS is just a collective noun for whatever happens to be the
>installed/available codepage of the host computer (at least with
>CP_ACP)?
To be clear, the "mbcs" encoding in Python uses CP_ACP. MBCS means
multibyte character set. The
>
> From: eryksun
>To: Albert-Jan Roskam
>Cc: Python Mailing List
>Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:07 PM
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] sys.getfilesystemencoding()
>
>On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>>
>&
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>
>In windows xp, the characters can, apparently, not be represented
>in this encoding called 'mbcs'.
MBCS (multibyte character set) refers to the locale encoding on
Windows. CPython encodes to MBCS via the Win32 function
WideCharToMultiBy
- Original Message -
> From: eryksun
> To: Albert-Jan Roskam
> Cc: Python Mailing List
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] sys.getfilesystemencoding()
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam
> wrote:
>>
>
On 18 December 2012 13:13, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> I am trying to write a file with a 'foreign' unicode name (I am aware that
> this is a highly western-o-centric way of putting it). In Linux, I can encode
> it to utf-8 and the file name is displayed correctly. In windows xp, the
> character
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>
> # Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19)
> [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>
> import sys
>
> def _encodeFileName(fn):
> """Helper function to encode unicode file names into system file names.
> http://effbot.or
Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> I am trying to write a file with a 'foreign' unicode name (I am aware that
> this is a highly western-o-centric way of putting it). In Linux, I can
> encode it to utf-8 and the file name is displayed correctly. In windows
> xp, the characters can, apparently, not be repr
