[Pythonmac-SIG] Opening files with Japanese characters on Tiger

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2007-12-07 um 17:26 schrieb James Kelly:

> I ran into an issue recently opening files with Japanese characters on
> Tiger.  Essentially I am reading from a utf-8 file containing lists  
> of file
> names.  Most are completely in English, a few contain Japanese  
> characters in
> the filename.  I am opening the files for a binary write.   
> Unfortunately
> when I do this, and the filename contains Japanese characters, I  
> get an
> exception of type exceptions.IOError, with the specific exception  
> being an
> 'invalid mode: wb.'

Don't know if this could be the reason, but did you take OSX's  
decomposed Unicode in the filesystem into account?
I often struggle with that stuff.
Maybe there's a difference between 10.4 and 10.5, I don't know.

Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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