[SOLVED] [Windows] Converting filename to UTF8?

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t's displayed fine in Notepad++.

I can live with chardetect misdetecting the encoding.

Sure if working there is no problem.
Some tips when in Notepad++ most remember to save file not only display it.
Remember define encoding(utf-8) in Python both when take file in and save it out from Python,if not so can Windows mess it up and guess on wrong encoding
So in code i post #2, then file in from OS and out after Python is utf-8.

# In from OS
G:\div_code\answer
λ chardetect pla.kml
pla.kml: utf-8 with confidence 0.99

# Out put from Python
G:\div_code\answer
λ chardetect pla_out.kml
pla_out.kml: utf-8 with confidence 0.99