Robin Becker wrote: > A kind user reports having problems running the reportlab tests because > his path has non-ascii characters in it eg > > .....\Mes documents\Mes Téléchargements\Firefox\... > > somewhere in the tests we look at the path and then try and convert to > utf8 for display in pdf. > > Is there a standard way to do these path string conversions? > > Paths appear to come from all sorts of places and given the increasing use > of zip file packaging it doesn't seem appropriate to rely on the current > platform as a single choice for the default encoding.
Zip files contain a bit flag for the character encoding (cp430 or utf-8), see the ZipInfo object in module zipfile and the link (on that page) to the file format description. But I think some zip programs just put the path in the zipfile, encoded in the local code page, in which case you have no way of knowing. -- Regards, Tijs -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
