Re: convert Unicode filenames to good-looking ASCII

2010-05-06 Thread coldpizza
Cool! Thanks to both Iliya and Peter! On May 6, 7:34 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > coldpizza wrote: > > Hello, > > > I need to convert accented unicode chars in some audio files to > > similarly-looking ascii chars. Looks like the following code seems to > > work on windows: > > > im

Re: convert Unicode filenames to good-looking ASCII

2010-05-06 Thread Peter Otten
coldpizza wrote: > Hello, > > I need to convert accented unicode chars in some audio files to > similarly-looking ascii chars. Looks like the following code seems to > work on windows: > > import os > import sys > import glob > > EXT = '*.*' > > lst_uni = glob.glob(unicode(EXT)) > > os.system

Re: convert Unicode filenames to good-looking ASCII

2010-05-06 Thread Iliya
Try smth like this: import unicodedata def remove_accents(str): nkfd_form = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(str)) return u''.join([c for c in nkfd_form if not unicodedata.combining(c)]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

convert Unicode filenames to good-looking ASCII

2010-05-06 Thread coldpizza
Hello, I need to convert accented unicode chars in some audio files to similarly-looking ascii chars. Looks like the following code seems to work on windows: import os import sys import glob EXT = '*.*' lst_uni = glob.glob(unicode(EXT)) os.system('chcp 437') lst_asci = glob.glob(EXT) print sys