Hi Dne Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:39:33 -0400 Andreas Klöckner <[email protected]> napsal(a):
> On Mittwoch 11 März 2009, Michal Čihař wrote: > > Hi > > > > Do you have any plans to make tagpy work with unicode file names? In > > Debian I just got following bug report for that. > > No, I don't think so. On Unix (Linux), the reality is that a filename is a > bunch of bytes. Any encoding on top of it is an illusion that's maintained > for > the user's sake, but it breaks far too often on 'practical' filesystems to be > something I'd include in an API of mine. If an app on top of tagpy wants to > support that illusion, they need to deal with the complexity arising from it. > (Glib has code for that, for example) Taglib seems to agree, btw. But Python does not agree: Dne Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:55:40 +0200 Adam Szojda <[email protected]> napsal(a): > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 02:50:11PM +0100, Michal Čihař wrote: > > > > What is correct according to upstream, your application should take > > care of conversion unicode sting to whatever is proper representation > > of it on filesystem. > > > > Oh. Strange. That illusion seems to be supported by the Python itself: > > $ python > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 21:59:32) > [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> f = open(u"łä.mp3", "rb") > >>> f > <open file u'\u0142\xe4.mp3', mode 'rb' at 0x7f8c25faca08> > > >>> for i in os.listdir(u'.'): > ... if i[-3:] == u"mp3": > ... print i > ... > łä.mp3 > > and using non-latin chars: > > >>> f = open(u"चीन.mp3", "w") > >>> f > <open file u'\u091a\u0940\u0928.mp3', mode 'w' at 0x7f3520079cd8> > >>> for i in os.listdir(u"."): > ... if i[-3:] == u"mp3": > ... print i > ... > łä.mp3 > चीन.mp3 > > So basicly, one can write an app in python that's using unicode > for everyting, including filenames and will be forsed to recode > them manually to filesystem encoding for tagpy. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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