[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-838881 ] win32file.FindFilesW behavior with Unicode

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Bugs item #838881, was opened at 2003-11-09 12:49
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Category: win32
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ed Plese (eplese)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: win32file.FindFilesW behavior with Unicode

Initial Comment:
When passing a Unicode string into
win32file.FindFilesW, this string is converted to a
regular string using I believe the default codepage. 
This is then converted back to Unicode with the win32
API function MultiByteToWideChar and then passed to the
win32 API function FindFirstFileW.  Doing this leads to
errors like the following:

  File "checkfiles.py", line 14, in RecursiveDir
    files = win32file.FindFilesW(searchpath)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
character '\uf1' in position 61: ordinal not in range(128)

When passing in Unicode to this function, shouldn't it
be preserved exactly without the unnecessary conversions?

I have tried first converting the Unicode to a normal
string with a number of different code pages. 
Sometimes that would help, but the error would appear
on a different file in the directory structure that
contained some other Unicode characters in the
filename.  The only way I could get this to work
without fail was to download the source and modify this
function to accept only Unicode strings, and then pass
those directly to FindFirstFileW.

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