title: Python: UTF-8 german special chars
body: <p>I'm searching for files in a python script and storing the filepathes.
  The problem is, that in some cases there are special chars like ö ä ü 
  inside (UTF-8 Table hex U+00C4 U+00D6 U+00DC etc.)
  When I print the path with "print" it is shown correctly. When I use this
  string for sending it to os.system() the special chars are escaped out and
  getting an UTF error.</p>
  
  <p>ErrorMsg:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cp -nv /home/rainer/Arbeitsfläche/Videofiles/A047C001_130226_R1WV.mov /media/rainer/LinuxData
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "Clipfinder.py", line 254, in &lt;module&gt;
      copyProcess(sourcedir,destdir,cliplist)
    File "Clipfinder.py", line 205, in copyProcess
      os.system(copycmd)
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 29: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thx for help !
  rainer</p>
  
  <pre><code>copycmd = "cp -nv " + pathtoFile_src + " " + destdir
  print copycmd
  os.system(copycmd)
  </code></pre>