Hi, I have a need to store directory and filenames in a database. For the database I chose to use UTF-8 encoding; but the actual encoding used is probably immaterial: whichever coding I take, I'll run into this issue eventually.
At first my code worked until I ran into a directory full of Cyrillic characters and my program blew up. So now what I need to know is, how do I find out in what encoding a particular filename is? Is there a portable way for doing this? And if not, then what is the non-portable way for doing this on Windows? (WinXP) (If there's only a non-portable way then I'll worry about porting it later, if and when this program will ever have a need to run on a Unix-like environment) Many thanks in advance, --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
