handling of non-ASCII filenames?

[Christian Gollwitzer]

Am 18.11.15 um 17:45 schrieb Ulli Horlacher:
> This is my encoding function:
>
> def url_encode(s):
>    u = ''
>    for c in list(s):
>      if match(r'[_=:,;<>()+.\w\-]',c):
>        u += c
>      else:
>        u += '%' + c.encode("hex").upper()
>    return u
>
>

The quoting is applied to a UTF8 string. But I think you shouldn't do it 
yourself,  use a library function:

import urllib
urllib.quote(yourstring.encode('utf8'))

	Christian