handling of non-ASCII filenames?

[Ulli Horlacher]

Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.

encode("hex") works only with binary strings?
How do I convert a UTF8 string to binary?



> But I think you shouldn't do it yourself, use a library function:
> 
> import urllib
> urllib.quote(yourstring.encode('utf8'))

It does not encode exactly the same way I need it.
Besides this, I want to understand how Python handles strings and
character encoding. 


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