"jeffunit" <j...@jeffunit.com> wrote in message
news:20090915144123964.ljka6...@cdptpa-omta01.mail.rr.com...
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.
-Mark
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