File path encodings

[uhm57]

Hi everyone,

it seems like I stumbled into another problem. I want to query user for a filename, then open this file as an image. The trouble starts when the user inputs non-ascii characters in the path to file. I use the following code:

import os, appuifw, graphics

t=appuifw.query(u'dir','text')

print os.path.exists(t)

sz=graphics.Image.open(t)

In the test case, if the path contains cyrillic symbols, graphics.Image.open fails with KErrUnderflow error, even though os.path.exists works as intended. Any suggestions on how to avoid this error?

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

In the test case, if the path contains cyrillic symbols, graphics.Image.open fails with KErrUnderflow error, even though os.path.exists works as intended. Any suggestions on how to avoid this error?

Bug ? How about to use utf instead unicode for Image.open() ?

sz=graphics.Image.open(t.encode("utf-8"))

Just a guess ... I did not tried it.
Documentation does not talk about filename encoding and we do not have any related bug reported.

[uhm57]

Sorry, it's not a bug, it's just my mistake. Nothing wrong with the encodings, the file I used as a test subject was accidentally a png-file with zero length, so that was the source of error. I apologize for that false alarm