cannot open file with non-ASCII filename

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:34:56 -0500, Terry Reedy writes:
>On 12/14/2015 11:24 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>> With Python 2.7.11 on Windows 7 my users cannot open/read files with
>> non-ASCII filenames.
>
>Right.  They should either restrict themselves to ascii (or possibly 
>latin-1) filenames or use current 3.x.  This is one of the (known) 
>unicode problems fixed in 3.x by making unicode the core text class, 
>replacing the implementation of unicode, and performing further work 
>with the new implementation.
>
>-- 
>Terry Jan Reedy
>
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Given that Ulli is in Germany, latin-1 is likely to work fine for him.  And
you do it like this:

# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()
s = 'Välkommen till Göteborg'  # Welcome to Gothenburg (where I live)
u = unicode(s, 'iso8859-1')
Label(root, text=u).pack()

root.mainloop()

Laura