On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:15:23 -0700, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote: > One of my Greek filenames is "Ευχή του Ιησού.mp3". Just a Greek filename > with spaces. > Is there a problem when a filename contain both english and greek > letters? Isn't it still a unicode string?
No problem, and Unicode includes both English and Greek letters. > All i did in my CentOS was 'mv "Euxi tou Ihsou.mp3" "Ευχή του Ιησού.mp3" That's not what you wrote earlier. You said you used FileZilla to transfer the files from Windows 8. > and the displayed filename after 'ls -l' returned was: > > is -rw-r--r-- 1 nikos nikos 3511233 Jun 4 14:11 \305\365\367\336\ > \364\357\365\ \311\347\363\357\375.mp3 > > There is no way at all to check the charset used to store it in hdd? It > should be UTF-8, but it doesn't look like it. Is there some linxu > command or some python command that will print out the actual encoding > of '\305\365\367\336\ \364\357\365\ \311\347\363\357\375.mp3' ? You have misunderstood. The Linux file system does not track encodings. It just stores bytes. There is no *reliable* way to guess the encoding that a bunch of bytes came from. If your bytes look like 0x48 0x65 0x6c 0x6c 0x6f 0x20 0x77 0x6f 0x72 0x6c 0x64 0x21 (ASCII "Hello World!") then you might *guess* that the encoding is ASCII, or UTF-8, or Latin-1. But in general, you can't go from the bytes to the encoding. Encodings are out-of-band information. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
