Merge pull request #275 from grawity/winnt-unicode

Support Unicode in file names on Windows NT
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Philipp Hagemeister 2012-01-16 03:23:22 -08:00
commit 99d46e8c27

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@ -305,7 +305,14 @@ def _encodeFilename(s):
"""
assert type(s) == type(u'')
return s.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore')
if sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.getwindowsversion().major >= 5:
# Pass u'' directly to use Unicode APIs on Windows 2000 and up
# (Detecting Windows NT 4 is tricky because 'major >= 4' would
# match Windows 9x series as well. Besides, NT 4 is obsolete.)
return s
else:
return s.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore')
class DownloadError(Exception):
"""Download Error exception.