[Tutor] Filenames with accents (special characters)

[Poor Yorick]

Since no one has responded to your question, I'll take a very uninformed 
stab in the dark, and say that it may have something to do with your 
windows locale settings.  See the thread regarding my question about 
Chinese characters:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2002-July/016047.html

In a nutshell, if the character set indicated by your current Windows 
locale settings does not contain one or more characters found in a given 
filename, Python will not read that filename correctly.

Poor Yorick
gp@pooryorick.com

Yann Le Du wrote:

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>Hello,
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>I use the French keyboard, and under Linux, I can open files with accents, 
>but not under Windows (where I use IDLE).
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>If the variable "a" contains a string of characters with special 
>characters such as accents (i.e. that don't belong to the normal ascii 
>range 1-128), then open(a,"w") doesn't work under Windows.
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>Does anyone know how to make the open() work in that case ?
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>Yann
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