Hi, 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 represented in this encoding called 'mbcs'. How can I write file names that are always encoded correctly on any platform? Or is this a shortcoming of Windows? # 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.org/pyref/sys.getfilesystemencoding.htm"""; isWindows = sys.platform.startswith("win") isUnicode = isinstance(fn, unicode) if isUnicode: # and not isWindows encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding() # 'mbcs' on Windows, 'utf-8' on Linux encoding = "utf-8" if not encoding else encoding return fn.encode(encoding) return fn fn = u'\u0c0f\u0c2e\u0c02\u0c21\u0c40' + '.txt' # Telugu language with open(_encodeFileName(fn), "wb") as w: w.write("yaay!\n") # the characters of the FILE NAME can not be represented in the encoding (squares/tofu) print "written: ", w.name Thank you very much in advance! Regards, Albert-Jan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
