Does not work if filename has non-English characters
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Description
The following code fails if the file has æ, å or ø in it. I can imagine it would fail with other non-English characters as well. Would it be possible to fix this?
import magic as m
print(m.from_file(r'C:\Users\------\Desktop\data\æøå.pdf'))
Error:
cannot open `C:\Users\------\Desktop\data\æøå.pdf' (No such file or directory)
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Start by reproducing the reported call to magic.from_file with a path containing æ, å, or ø and inspect how python-magic passes that filename to libmagic. Done means the call successfully handles non-English filenames without the reported “No such file or directory” error; broaden testing to other non-English characters if the existing tests support it.
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