handling of non-ASCII filenames?

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Ulli Horlacher
<framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> As I am Python newbie I have not quite understood the Python character
> encoding scheme :-}
>
> Where can I find a good introduction of this topic?

Here are a couple of articles on the basics of Unicode:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html

If you can use Python 3, your life will be easier. Otherwise, you'll
need to work some of this stuff out manually.

ChrisA