[Merkl, Werner wrote]
> Hi,
>
> in my job I have a lot of differnt language to deal with, now including
> japan. And we have all these languages on our server (Windows 2000)...
> So NTFS uses UNICODE (I think it's 'utf-16').
>
> Python -- at least since version 1.6 -- is supposed to understand
> and handle UNICODE. But my experience is, it doesn't support
> UNICODE for NTFS file names.
>
> eg:
> PythonWin 2.2.1 (#34, Apr 15 2002, 09:51:39) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32.
> Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - see
>'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.
> >>> abc = u'a:\u03b1\u03b2\u03b3.txt'; print abc
> a:???.txt
> >>> open(abc,'w').write('test')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'a:a\xdf?.txt'
> >>>
>
> Oops! Does this mean, I have to use VisualBasicScript to handle this????
> Or are there any swiches or tools or libs to use UNICODE filesystems?
I am far from the most knowledgeable about Unicode, but as far as I
understand it you are right, Python is currently somehwat limited in its
handling of Unicode filenames on Windows. There is a proposal to fix
this in Python: Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 277:
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0277.html
Unicode file name support for Windows NT
Currently, I believe, Martin von Loewis is working on a patch for this
and intends to get it to be part of Python 2.3.
As a workaround you _might_ be able to work with unicode filenames by
using the lower-lever Win32 API file handling calls exposed via the
PyWin32 extensions.
import win32file
win32file.CreateFile(...)
win32file.ReadFile(...)
win32file.WriteFile(...)
etc.
Cheers,
Trent
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Trent Mick
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