Unicode filenames

[Barry Scott]

> On 6 Dec 2019, at 18:17, Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:
> 
> I have some files which came off the net with, I'm assuming, unicode
> characters in the names. I have a very short program which takes the
> filename and puts into an emacs buffer, and then lets me add information to
> that new file (it's a poor man's DB).
> 
> Next, I can look up text in the file and open the saved filename.
> Everything works great until I hit those darn unicode filenames.

Yes the names you download are unicode.
All OS can save that filename to disk these days.
Can you see the file on disk with the name you expect?

What OS are you using? 

> 
> Just to confuse me even more, the error seems to be coming from a bit of
> tkinter code:
> if sresults.has_key(textAtCursor):
>        bookname = os.path.expanduser(sresults[textAtCursor].strip())
> 
> which generates
> 
>  UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments
> to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal  if
> sresults.has_key(textAtCursor):

What version of python are you using? Peter only managed to get the error
with python 2. 

Do you get the error with python 3?

Barry


> I really don't understand the business about "both arguments". Not sure how
> to proceed here. Hoping for a guideline!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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