How do I use non-english characters?

[ThisIsRobokitty]

Non-english, I think the other term is non-ansi. And/or using utf-8.

def translate_audio(audio_file, output_dir):
    encoded_audio_file = audio_file.encode("utf-8")
    encoded_output_dir = output_dir.encode("utf-8")
    cmd = f"whisper {audio_file} --language Japanese --task translate --output_dir {output_dir} --output_format srt --model medium"
    result = subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
    if result.returncode != 0:
        print("Error:", result.stderr.decode("utf-8"))
    else:
        print("Transcription saved to", output_dir)

audio_path = r"Nasa Ch. 転寝ナサ 【Phase Connect】 Audio"
caption_path = r"Nasa Ch. 転寝ナサ 【Phase Connect】 Captions"

#do captioning from audio
for audioname in sorted_files:
       audio_file = os.path.join(audio_path, audioname + ".wav")
       caption_file = os.path.join(caption_path, audioname + ".srt")
       caption_dir = os.path.join(caption_path)
       if not os.path.exists(caption_file):
            print(audio_file)
            print(caption_dir)
            translate_audio(audio_file, caption_dir)
       else:
            print("Caption exists, skipping:", audioname + ".srt")

I get whisper: error: unrecognized arguments: Ch. ???? ?Phase Connect? Captions/ when I do this
and if I use the encoded utf-8 there, I get
whisper: error: unrecognized arguments: Ch. \xe8\xbb\xa2\xe5\xaf\x9d\xe3\x83\x8a\xe3\x82\xb5 \xe3\x80\x90Phase Connect\xe3\x80\x91 Captions' instead

I have more libraries that don't have this issue running beforehand (I run pydub to extract audio from .mp4, and now I'm reading the resulting .wav here)

[ThisIsRobokitty]

I found you a handling bug. Not where I marked but somewhere before that. I'll find it soon.

[ThisIsRobokitty]

So I printed out "sys.argv" and it still comes out with incorrect encoding and I've reached the limit of what I can do on this end but I've managed to understand the flow of the python internals in transcribe so I'll try and do it the python way instead of a system call.

[ThisIsRobokitty]

Ok, I downloaded it and ran it locally and it's running.

Minor spacing issue but that is my proof it's running.

this is proof too.