OEM character set issue

[Ladvánszky Károly]

On my hungarian Win2k, some of the accented characters of the file names
appear incorrectly when Python is driven from the command line. However,
they
appear okay when the same script is running within an IDE. The same problem
holds in the case of text files edited by GUI editors. Is there any solution
in the Python arsenal?

Thanks for any help,

Károly

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On my hungarian Win2k, some of the accented characters of the file names
appear incorrectly when Python is driven from the command line. However,
they

The "MS-DOS" command window tends to use a different character
encoding than full "Windows" widgets.

Makes this a M$ problem, not Python...
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[Kent Johnson]

The "MS-DOS" command window tends to use a different character
encoding than full "Windows" widgets.

You can chaneg the encoding used by the command window with the chcp command.

Kent