Changing filenames from Greeklish => Greek (subprocess complain)

[Lele Gaifax]

Νικόλαος Κούρας <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> writes:

> Τη Κυριακή, 9 Ιουνίου 2013 11:55:43 π.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Lele Gaifax έγραψε:
>> Uhm, no: "encode" transforms a Unicode string into an array of bytes,
>> "decode" does the opposite transformation. You cannot do the former on
>> an "arbitrary" array of bytes:
>> 
>>     >>> s = "νίκος"
>>     >>> utf8_bytes = s.encode('utf-8')
>>     >>> greek_bytes = utf8_bytes.encode('iso-8869-7')
>>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>>       File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>     AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode'
>
> So something encoded into bytes cannot be re-encoded to some other bytes.
>
> How about a string i wonder?
> s = "νίκος"
> what_are these_bytes = s.encode('iso-8869-7').encode(utf-8')

Ignoring the usual syntax error, this is just a variant of the code I
posted: “s.encode('iso-8869-7')” produces a bytes instance which
*cannot* be "re-encoded" again in whatever encoding.

ciao, lele.
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