creating files with utf8 characters on windows

[clonny2]

I am trying to create some utf8 datasets on both windows and linux using python. I am able to create my datasets with linux just fine, but not windows.

I am able to create a dir with utf8 chars, but not files where the filename has the same utf8 symbol.

Here is my function to create a utf8 file. I pass in the hex value for the begining of the range and the end of the range.

<code>
ef create_utf8_file (path,range_start,range_end):
local_path = path
localRangeStart = range_start
localRangeEnd = range_end
# Create Dirs for each char
for i in range (localRangeStart,localRangeEnd):
local_uchar=unicode(unichr(i))
local_hchar=hex(i)
if os.name == "posix":
local_dir = ('%s/%s-%s' %(local_path,local_hchar,local_uchar))
local_file = ('%s/file-%s-%s' %(local_dir,local_hchar,local_uchar))
#local_file = ('file-%s-%s' %(local_hchar,local_uchar))
if os.name == "nt":
local_dirname = ('%s-%s' %(local_hchar,local_uchar))
encode_dirname = local_dirname.encode('utf-8')
local_dir = ('%s\%s' %(local_path,encode_dirname))
local_filename = ('file-%s-%s' %(local_hchar,local_uchar))
encode_filename=local_filename.encode('utf-8')
local_file = ('%s\%s' %(local_dir,encode_filename))

try:
local_fh = open(local_file, 'w',encoding='utf-8')
local_fh.write("This is hex %s and char %s" %(local_hchar,local_uchar) )
#local_fh.write("Test")
local_fh.close ()
except:
print "Can not create file %s" %local_file
</code>

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