On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 21:28:45 +0200
Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> Rod Person wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm working on a program that will walk a file system and clean the
> > id3 tags of mp3 and flac files, everything is working great until
> > the follow file is found
> >
> > '06 - Todd's Song (Post-Spiderland Song in Progress).flac'
> >
> > for some reason that I can't understand os.walk() returns this file
> > name as
> >
> > '06 - Todd\xe2\x80\x99s Song (Post-Spiderland Song in
> > Progress).flac'
> >
> > which then causes more hell than a little bit for me. I'm not
> > understand why apostrophe(') becomes \xe2\x80\x99, or what I can do
> > about it.
>
> >>> b"\xe2\x80\x99".decode("utf-8")
> '’'
> >>> unicodedata.name(_)
> 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK'
>
> So it's '’' rather than "'".
>
> > The script is Python 3, the file system it is running on is a hammer
> > filesystem on DragonFlyBSD. The audio files reside on a QNAP NAS
> > which runs some kind of Linux so it probably ext3/4. The files came
> > from various system (Mac, Windows, FreeBSD).
>
> There seems to be a mismatch between the assumed and the actual file
> system encoding somewhere in this mix. Is this the only glitch or are
> there similar problems with other non-ascii characters?
>
This is the only glitch as in file names so far.
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