On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:46 +0000, imgrey wrote: > First of all i would like to know if it is exists a way to represent > filenames in different encodings with django. > Seems i've tried everything, but cannot get rid of UnicodeDecodeError/ > UnicodeEncodeError messages.
You need to know the encoding of strings returned by os.listdir() on your system. It looks like they aren't utf-8. So find out the encoding and you can pass that to smart_unicode as the second parameter (called "encoding"). The errors you are seeing are just saying that the default of utf-8 isn't correct. Fortunately, once you know the right value, you can control that. By the way, for things where you know they are strings and you actually know even more -- they are bytestrings in a particular encoding -- smart_unicode() might be more than you need. You could just call unicode(my_string, encoding), with the right value for 'encoding'. If you have a look at the internals of smart_unicode(), you'll see that it has a lot of machinery for dealing with objects or things that might already be unicode, etc. In your case, you don't need all this extra protection. But, still, it won't hurt anything and it's not a bad habit; it'll just be very fractionally slower. Regards, Malcolm -- If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments. http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
