On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: > 2012/2/6 Scott Leerssen <sleers...@gmail.com> > I'm trying to open files with names that contain Japanese characters, and > found that win32file.CreateFile would raise an exception indicating that 'The > filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect'. I found > win32file.CreateFileW (documented to deal with 'unicode'), and that did > return a handle for me. What puzzles me is that both functions take a > PyUNICODE filename, so I just assumed that CreateFile would deal with the > unicode pathname I was giving it. So, my question is, should I just use > win32file.CreateFileW instead of win32file.CreateFile, and is it safe to use > for all file handles, including those that do not have wide characters? > > Yes, win32file.CreateFileW will accept all file names: unicode strings are > passed as is to the C function, > and byte strings are properly converted to a wide string. > But do you really need CreateFile? the plain open() function also accept > unicode with Japanese characters...
I need to get the pyHANDLE to call win32file.DeviceIoControl (to set reparse data) and win32file.SetFileShortName, but if there's an easier way to programmatically set the 8.3 name on a file, please let me know.
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