> 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
