# Python program to explain os.fsencode() method 
    
# importing os module 
import os
  
# Filename
filename = "/home/user/File.txt"
  
# Encode the filename
# to the filesystem encoding   
# with 'surrogateescape' error handler,
# or 'strict' (On Windows)
encode = os.fsencode(filename)
  
# Print the encoded filename
print(encode)
  
# The encode filename can be 
# decoded using os.fsdecode() method
print(os.fsdecode(encode))

Encoded filename: b'/home/user/F\xc3\x8e\xe2\x95\x9a\xc3\x88.txt'
/home/user/FÎ?È.txt