> What happens if there is a filename that cannot be represented in it's > entirety? i.e. every character is 'replaced'. Does it simply vanish, or does > it appear as "?????????" ? :)
The latter. I did open(u"\u20ac\u20ac","w") in an UTF-8 locale, then did "LANG=C ls", and it gave me ?????? (as the two characters use 6 bytes) > I spent an hour trying to find a single file on the web that did *not* have > (what seemed like) ascii characters in it and failed. Even urls on Japanese > websites use western characters ( a tcp/ip issue I suspect). Actually, an HTTP and URL issue. Non-ASCII URLs aren't really supported in the web. > I was hoping to > find a filename in Kanji (?) ending in .jpg or something so that I could > download it and see what my system (and Python) made of it. Use a text editor instead to create such a file. For example, create a new document, and save it as "活用事例.txt" (which Google says means "casestudies.txt") Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
