Merkl, Werner wrote: > Hi, > > in my job I have a lot of differnt language to deal with, now including > japan. And we have all these languages on our server (Windows 2000)... > So NTFS uses UNICODE (I think it's 'utf-16'). > > Python -- at least since version 1.6 -- is supposed to understand > and handle UNICODE. But my experience is, it doesn't support > UNICODE for NTFS file names.
That's correct. There's a PEP on the topic: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0277.html which I'm hoping we can get in to a release soon, but at this point there's no good workaround. -- David Ascher _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython
