"Neil Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Michael:
>
> > Like I said, it's only supposed to run on linux; anyway, is it likely
> > that problems will arise when filenames I have to handle have
> > basically three sources:
> > ...
> > 3. filenames created by user input
>
> Have you worked out how you want to handle user input that is not
> representable in the encoding? It is easy for users to input any characters
> into a Unicode enabled UI either through invoking an input method or by
> copying and pasting from another application or character chooser applet.
>
> Neil
As I must admit, no. I just couldn't figure out that someone will really do
this.
I guess I could add a test like (pseudo code):
try:
test = fsdecode(input)# convert to unicode
test.encode(sysencoding)
except:
# show a message box with something like "Invalid file name"
Please tell me if you find any other possible gotchas.
Thanks so far
Michael
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