Thread: how to handle unicode chars in filenames in python?
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Old 10-18-2013, 09:18 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by At_Libitum View Post
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....

0xF6 for ö and 0xE4 for ä looks like iso-8859-1 (ISO Latin-1). In which case, going from a unicode string, you want

.encode("iso-8859-1")
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