cannot open file with non-ASCII filename

[Ulli Horlacher]

Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:

> Given that Ulli is in Germany, latin-1 is likely to work fine for him. 

For me, but not for my users. We have people from about 100 nations at our
university. 


> 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()

The problem is the input of these filenames.


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