[Solved] dae2egg and unicode

Scripting Issues
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Hello,

In my application I’m trying to convert COLLADA files to EGG files using dae2egg, this way:

dae2egg = self.paths['urban_resource_folder'] / 'bin' / 'dae2egg.exe'
subprocess.call('%s -noexist -tbnall -o "%s" "%s"' % (dae2egg, egg_path, temp_collada_path))

My issue is that it is failing with path that contains unicode characters like French accent “é”.
With the original input path:

C:\Users\David\Documents\Projets\COLLADA\Bouclié.dae

I tried the following:

u'C:/Users/David/Documents/Projets/COLLADA/Boucli\xe9.dae'
u'C:/Users/David/Documents/Projets/COLLADA/Boucli\xc3\xa9.dae'

but none of those is working, I get an error:

Cannot find input file /c/Users/David/Documents/Projets/COLLADA/Boucli├â┬®.dae

But what surprises me is that it is working from a command shell:

C:\Users\David\Documents\Projets\COLLADA>dae2egg Bouclié.dae jojo.egg

Reading BoucliÚ.dae
Writing jojo.egg

Any idea what I should input in the subprocess call to make it work?

Thanks in advance
-David

2

Auto-solve:

cmd_line = '%s -noexist -tbnall -o "%s" "%s"' % (dae2egg, egg_path, temp_collada_path)
subprocess.call(cmd_line.encode(locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]))

But now it’s failing in the loadModel, see this post:
[url]loader.loadModel and unicode]

Any chance to see this fixed?
For now I still use the DOS 8.3 trick, and it works.

For those who would need the code:

path = os.path.normpath(path)
import win32api
path = win32api.GetShortPathName(path) #convert to DOS 8.3 for loadModel for instance
return Filename.fromOsSpecific(path).getFullpath()

Thanks

3

Note that you can also use Filename.toOsShortName() to do the same trick without win32api. But I’m not sure what encoding subprocess requires.

David