Python strings outside the 128 range

[Piet van Oostrum]

Re: Python strings outside the 128 range

>>>>Michael Piotrowski <mxp@dynalabs.d e(MP) wrote:

>MPOn 2006-07-14 "Diez B. Roggisch" <deets@nospam.w eb.dewrote:

>>Sybren Stuvel schrieb:
>>>Diez B. Roggisch enlightened us with:
>>>>Of course not. AFAIK there is no way figuring out which encoding the
>>>>target console supports. The best you can do is to offer an option
>>>>that allwos selection of the output encoding.
>>>>
>>>You can use the LANG environment variable on many systems. On mine,
>>>it's set to en_GB.UTF-8, which causes a lot of software to
>>>automaticall y choose the right encoding.
>>>
>>That might be a good heuristic - but on my Mac no LANG is set. So I
>>should paraphrase my statement to "There is no reliable and
>>cross-platform way figuring out which encoding the console uses".

>MPIf LANG is not set, it's equivalent to setting it to "C". However,
>MPyou shouldn't look directly at these variables (LANG and LC_*) but
>MPrather use the functions from the locale module, e.g.:

>MP import locale
>MP locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , '') # use the current locale settings
>MP encoding = locale.nl_langi nfo(locale.CODE SET)

But if LANG isn't set (like on Mac OS X) this doesn't give you the proper
encoding.
On my system I have added LANG to .profile.
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[Michael Piotrowski]

Re: Python strings outside the 128 range

On 2006-07-17 Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nlw rote:

>>>That might be a good heuristic - but on my Mac no LANG is set. So I
>>>should paraphrase my statement to "There is no reliable and
>>>cross-platform way figuring out which encoding the console uses".

>

>>If LANG is not set, it's equivalent to setting it to "C". However,
>>you shouldn't look directly at these variables (LANG and LC_*) but
>>rather use the functions from the locale module, e.g.:

>

>> import locale
>> locale.setlocal e(locale.LC_ALL , '') # use the current locale settings
>> encoding = locale.nl_langi nfo(locale.CODE SET)

>
But if LANG isn't set (like on Mac OS X) this doesn't give you the proper
encoding.

Well, yes, but it gives you something "safe" and you can advise the
user to set the locale.

On my system I have added LANG to .profile.

That's certainly the right thing to do.

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