Detecting filename-encoding (on WinXP)?

[Tim N. van der Leeuw]

Actually, the directory-name comes in as a URL and as such I had no
problems yet just creating a unicode-string from it which I can pass to
os.walk(), and get proper unicode-filenames back from it.
Then I can encode them into utf-8 and pass them to the database-layer
and it all works.

cheers,

--Tim