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KevinH · 01-02-2018, 05:45 PM

Note, filesystem/path encodings in Python can differ greatly on Windows from the utf-8 standard used on Linux and Macs.

So if you are trying to convert a bytestring in Python that contains a path or partial path to full unicode you should probably decode it using sys.getfilesystemencoding() to create a full unicode string and then encode that into utf-8 for printing.

Alternatively, you can use 'replace' with decode and encode routines to prevent problems with unknown bytestrings.

See my unipath.py code here for routines for fighting this battle:

https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil...hon/unipath.py

01-02-2018, 05:45 PM	#121
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,809 Karma: 6000000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Note, filesystem/path encodings in Python can differ greatly on Windows from the utf-8 standard used on Linux and Macs. So if you are trying to convert a bytestring in Python that contains a path or partial path to full unicode you should probably decode it using sys.getfilesystemencoding() to create a full unicode string and then encode that into utf-8 for printing. Alternatively, you can use 'replace' with decode and encode routines to prevent problems with unknown bytestrings. See my unipath.py code here for routines for fighting this battle: https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil...hon/unipath.py