Michael: on my box, (winXP SP2), sys.getfilesystemencoding() returns 'mbcs'.
If you post your revised solution to this unicode problem, I'd be delighted to test it on Windows. I'm working on a Tkinter front-end for Vivian deSmedt's rsync.py and would like to address the issue of accented characters in folder names. thanks Stewart stewart dot midwinter at gmail dot com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
