> In a nutshell, this is likely to cause pain until all file systems are
> standardized on a particular encoding of Unicode. Probably only about
> another fifteen years to go ...
well, most Linux distros are defaulting to a UTF-8 locale now, the
exception beeing Gentoo&similar that expect the use
Michal Ludvig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there any way to determine what's the charset of filenames returned
> by os.walk()?
>
> The trouble is, if I pass argument to os.walk() I get the
> filenames as byte-strings. Possibly UTF-8 encoded Unicode, who knows.
>
> OTOH If I pass to os.walk() all th
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:32:27 +1300, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> is there any way to determine what's the charset of filenames returned
> by os.walk()?
No. Especially under *nix file systems file names are just a string of
bytes, not characters. It is possible to have file names in different
encond
Hi all,
is there any way to determine what's the charset of filenames returned
by os.walk()?
The trouble is, if I pass argument to os.walk() I get the
filenames as byte-strings. Possibly UTF-8 encoded Unicode, who knows.
OTOH If I pass to os.walk() all the filenames I get in
the loop are alrea
