On 2 Feb 2006 08:03:14 -0800, rumours say that Tim N. van der Leeuw
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So now what I need to know is, how do I find out in what encoding a
particular filename is? Is there a portable way for doing this?
You said the filename comes as data, and not as contents
Actually, the directory-name comes in as a URL and as such I had no
problems yet just creating a unicode-string from it which I can pass to
os.walk(), and get proper unicode-filenames back from it.
Then I can encode them into utf-8 and pass them to the database-layer
and it all works.
cheers,
Hi,
I have a need to store directory and filenames in a database. For the
database I chose to use UTF-8 encoding; but the actual encoding used is
probably immaterial: whichever coding I take, I'll run into this issue
eventually.
At first my code worked until I ran into a directory full of
Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote:
Hi,
I have a need to store directory and filenames in a database. For the
database I chose to use UTF-8 encoding; but the actual encoding used is
probably immaterial: whichever coding I take, I'll run into this issue
eventually.
At first my code worked until I
Hi Magnus,
I get the filename from a URL, which probably is not in any kind of
unicode-string but just a plain ASCII string. It should be possible to
cast this to an ASCII string -- I'll try it right away to see if this
works.
Thanks!
--Tim
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