New submission from Hugo Silva hugo...@gmail.com:
Hi all,
I'm facing a huge encoding problem in Python when dealing with ISO-8859-1 /
Latin-1 character set.
When using os.listdir to get the contents of a folder I'm getting the strings
encoded in ISO-8859-1 (ex: ''Ol\xe1 Mundo''), however in
Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment:
This doesn't seem a bug to me, so you should ask for help somewhere else.
You can try to pass a unicode arg to listdir to get unicode back, and double
check what the input actually is.
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resolution: - invalid
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Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment:
Apparently, you are using the interactive shell on Microsoft Windows. This will
use the OEM code page; which one that is depends on the exact Windows
regional version you are using.
You shouldn't decode the string with 'latin-1', but with
