handling of non-ASCII filenames?

[Christian Gollwitzer]

Am 19.11.15 um 08:54 schrieb 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?

It's right in the other line I showed you:

Apfelkiste:Tests chris$ python
Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> u"blablüa".encode('utf8')
'blabl\xc3\xbca'
 >>>

	Christian