Hello All,
I have found much help in the google archives but I am still stuck...
here is my code snippet: path = os.getcwd() path = path.decode('UTF8')
Now the trouble is I am getting that darn UnicodeDecodeError, where it is tripping up on the Korean hangul for My Desktop. Now I have tried utf8 and utf16 and neither of these works.
So is this my question?: What encoding does windows use for Korean
Windows?
Try "mbcs". This is a built-in encoding avalaible only on Windows and that equals the system's default ANSI codepage. Using "mbcs", which is short for "multi-byte character set", the conversions to and from Unicode (decode/encode) are internally handled by the corresponding win32 api functions.
-- Vincent Wehren
I thought it might be and so I surfed around
(http://foundationstone.com.au/HtmlSupport/OnlineHelp/Localisation/SupportedEncodings.html) and there appears to be an encoding called: windows-949 labeled to be Korean Windows, which of couse is *not* one of the encodings to be found in the encodings package... which would suck.
But then I thought about it some more, how could you make software to do things like read the current directory work on different language machines??? It would be madness to have a try statement for each and every encoding under the sun...
Why isn't there a get system encoding method?
Or am I on the entirely wrong track?
Thanks, -Erik
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