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On 1/9/2012 11:24 PM, pyscripter@gmail.com wrote:
> Using python 3.2 in Windows 7 I am getting the following:
>
>>> compile('pass', r'c:\temp\=E5=B7=A5=E5=85=B7\module1.py', 'exec')
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'mbcs' codec can't encode characters in position 0-=
-1: invalid character
>
> Can anybody explain why the compile statement tries to convert the unic=
ode filename using mbcs?  I know that sys.getfilesystemencoding returns '=
mbcs' in Windows, but I thought that this is not used when unicode file n=
ames are provided.

I get the same error running 3.2.2 under IDLE but not when pasting into=20
Command Prompt. However, Command Prompt may be cheating by replacing the =

Chinese chars with '??' upon pasting, so that Python never gets them --=20
whereas they appear just fine in IDLE.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy