Hello everybody, I want to create a script which reads files in a current directory and renames them according to some scheme. The file names are in Russian - sometimes the names encoded as win-1251, sometimes as koi8-r etc. I want to read in file name and convert it to list for further processing. The problem is that Python treats non-ascii characters as multibyte characters - for example, hex code for "Small Character A" in koi8-r is 0xc1, but Python interprets it as a sequence of \xd0, \xb1 bytes.
What can I do so that Python interprets non-ascii characters correctly? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
