Ulli Horlacher wrote: > Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote: >> Given that Ulli is in Germany, latin-1 is likely to work fine for him. >> For me, but not for my users. We have people from about 100 nations at our > university. > […] > The problem is the input of these filenames. Why do you have to use msvcrt? I would use curses for user input, but: ,-<https://docs.python.org/2/howto/curses.html?highlight=user%20input> ,-<https://docs.python.org/3.2/howto/curses.html?highlight=user%20input> || No one has made a Windows port of the curses module. On a Windows | platform, try the Console module written by Fredrik Lundh. The Console | module provides cursor-addressable text output, plus full support for | mouse and keyboard input, and is available from | http://effbot.org/zone/console-index.htm. So you should try that instead. -- PointedEars Twitter: @PointedEars2 Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.