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At_Libitum · 10-17-2013, 08:09 PM

Hi,

well, maybe not exactly unicode, more like accented characters, so utf-8 at a minimum

I'm hitting the a wall, I need to find a function that converts this

Götterdämmerung

into this

G\xf6tterd\xe4mmerung

I've been all over the source but cannot find how it's done in python....

10-17-2013, 08:09 PM	#1
At_Libitum Addict Posts: 265 Karma: 724240 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: KyBook	how to handle unicode chars in filenames in python? Hi, well, maybe not exactly unicode, more like accented characters, so utf-8 at a minimum I'm hitting the a wall, I need to find a function that converts this Götterdämmerung into this G\xf6tterd\xe4mmerung I've been all over the source but cannot find how it's done in python.... Last edited by At_Libitum; 10-17-2013 at 08:21 PM.