drag drop from linux to a wxpython application

[marco]

simo a écrit :
> marco <manatlan at online.fr> wrote in message news:<40ab3ae7$0$21248$636a15ce at news.free.fr>...
> 
>>I've got a wxpython application
>>and when i drag'n' drop files from(linux) rox/nautilus/konqueror to my app
>>i've got strange chars in filenames (on win32 : it works well)
>>
>>example:
>>- my dir "my photos" will become "/home/marc/my%20photos"
>>- a dir "fêtes à strass" will become (something like this) 
>>"/home/marc/f%A8%CFtes%20%8F%AC%20strass"
> 
> 
> This is URL encoding. Basically because the use of top-bit-set
> characters and spaces in filenames is evil. Don't forget that most
> file managers are basically web browsers....
> 
> You'd need to URL decode the chars to get your original filename as on
> Windows, try:
> 
> import urllib
> print urllib.unquote_plus("f%A8%CFtes%20%8F%AC%20strass")
> 
> That will fix your %xx characters, although I don't get the same
> encoding as you're getting there (maybe it's a unicode thing?):
> 
> print urllib.quote("fêtes à strass")
> f%EAtes%20%E0%20strass

thanks a lot ...