> os.stat() here doesn't work either, it says "System cannot find file
> specified", because it turns unicode chars into \xe0, \xa9 etc. in the
> path.

just use the encoded string, not unicode.

>> I'd try os.stat() for both encodings in turn, then send to pycurl
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

for e in 'cp1251', 'utf8':
 try: enc = filename.encode(e); os.stat(enc); break
 except: continue
else:
 raise ...
print 'using encoding', e ...
curl(enc)
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