[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-3564527 ] GetShortPathName() fails for 8.3 baltic file names

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Bugs item #3564527, was opened at 2012-09-03 16:35
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Category: win32
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Pavel ()
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: GetShortPathName() fails for 8.3 baltic file names

Initial Comment:
If a 8.3 file name containing at least one baltic character is given to GetShortPathName(), it fails with exception. It does not fails on long file names:

Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                             
  File "D:\workspace\investigations\audio-hash\invest\GetShortName-bug\bug.py", line 10, in <module>           
    print win32api.GetShortPathName(file)                                                                      
  File "C:\Python\27\lib\encodings\cp866.py", line 12, in encode                                               
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)                                                    
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xf5' in position 2: character maps to <undefined>

õ2345678.txt  <-- does fail
õ23456789.txt <--- does not

See a file attached.

Python 2.7.3, Russian WIndows 7 32 bit, PyWin32 ver. 217

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