LC_ALL and os.listdir()

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 23 16:08:44 EST 2005


Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> I think that I can solve my problem by just converting any unicode
> strings from configuration into utf-8 simple strings using encode().
> Using this solution, all of my existing regression tests still pass, and
> my code seems to make it past the unusual directory.

See my other post. UTF-8 might be the wrong choice: the path might be
encoded as, say, ISO-8859-1 on disk, in which case an UTF-8-encoded
path would not be found.

Regards,
Martin



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