Printing Filenames with non-Ascii-Characters

[Max M]

Marian Aldenhövel wrote:

>  > If you're printing to the console, modern Pythons will try to guess the
>  > console's encoding (e.g. cp850).
> 
> But it seems to have quessed wrong. I don't blame it, I would not know of
> any way to reliably figure out this setting.

Have you set the coding cookie in your file?

Try adding this as the first or second line.

# -*- coding: cp850 -*-

Python will then know how your file is encoded

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