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Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename

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In a message of Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:34:56 -0500, Terry Reedy writes:
>On 12/14/2015 11:24 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>> With Python 2.7.11 on Windows 7 my users cannot open/read files with
>> non-ASCII filenames.
>
>Right.  They should either restrict themselves to ascii (or possibly 
>latin-1) filenames or use current 3.x.  This is one of the (known) 
>unicode problems fixed in 3.x by making unicode the core text class, 
>replacing the implementation of unicode, and performing further work 
>with the new implementation.
>
>-- 
>Terry Jan Reedy
>
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>https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Given that Ulli is in Germany, latin-1 is likely to work fine for him.  And
you do it like this:

# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
from Tkinter import *
root = Tk()
s = 'Välkommen till Göteborg'  # Welcome to Gothenburg (where I live)
u = unicode(s, 'iso8859-1')
Label(root, text=u).pack()

root.mainloop()

Laura

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cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-14 16:24 +0000
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-14 13:34 -0500
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-12-14 11:07 -0800
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 12:45 -0600
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-14 19:51 +0100
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-14 22:11 +0000
      Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-14 23:41 +0100
        Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-15 01:07 +0100
        Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 21:20 -0600
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 17:55 -0600
  Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-15 01:13 +0100
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-15 08:26 +0000
      Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-15 15:09 +0100
      Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 09:34 -0600
        Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-15 17:04 +0000
          Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 21:39 -0600
          Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename smap <askme.first@thankyouverymuch.invalid> - 2015-12-18 21:15 +0000
  cannot open file with non-ASCII filename bearmingo <bearmingo@gmail.com> - 2015-12-17 21:12 -0800
    Re: cannot open file with non-ASCII filename Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-12-18 01:37 -0500

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