I have a program that reads files using glob and puts them into an XML
file in UTF-8 using
unicode(file, sys.getfilesystemencoding()).encode(UTF-8)
This all works fine including all the odd characters like accents etc.
However I also print what it is doing and someone pointed out that
many
Can anyone tell me what I should be doing here?
The console uses the OEM code page. The Windows conversion
routine from Unicode to the OEM code page provides the lossy
conversion that you observe in listing.
Unfortunately, the OEM code page conversion is not available
from Python. What you can
I did notice that when a windows command window does a directory
listing of these files the characters seem to be translated into close
approximations (long dash to minus, special double quotes to simple
double quotes, but still retains many of the accent chars). I looked
at translate to do
