[Tutor] UTF-8 filenames encountered in os.walk

[Kent Johnson]

Alan Gauld wrote:
> "William O'Higgins Witteman" <hmm at woolgathering.cx> wrote
> 
>> I have several programs which traverse a Windows filesystem with 
>> French
>> characters in the filenames.
> 
> I suspect you need to set the Locale at the top of your file.

Do you mean the
# -*- coding: <encoding-name> -*-
comment? That only affects the encoding of the source file itself.

Kent