While having the same problem again I just realised I never replied...

Let's try this in python:

test1 = cms0penProfileFromFile('cmyk.icm','r')
test2 = cms0penProfileFromFile(u'cmyk.icm','r')

I get no problem with the first one, but the second one returns that
type error... any workaround?

Olivier

Kai-Uwe Behrmann a écrit :
> Am 02.10.08, 10:33 +0200 schrieb Olivier BERTEN:
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>> When I give an unicode string as argument to cmsOpenProfileFromFile, i get
>> this message
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>> TypeError: in method 'cmsOpenProfileFromFile', argument 1 of type 'char const
>> *'
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> The data type should not have much to do with the encoding. Is it a 16-bit
> type you pass to the call?
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>> That's pretty annoying since that's how my filesystem is encoded...
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>> I'm using the python bindings version 1.17 (debian package) on Ubuntu 8.10
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>> Olivier
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> Kai-Uwe
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