1 Nov
2002
1 Nov
'02
5:18 p.m.
Toby Dickenson writes:
... ... setdefaultencoding ... It is likely to disappear in fu ture versions of python. Alot of code legitimately assumes the default encodin g is ascii, and may break if you change it. This would be a bad turn on Python's part.
For the time being, the encoding used in may files, the printer, the operating system is "latin-1". Python should provide a convenient way to transparently convert between Unicode and my default environment, when I tell is so. Hopefully, we can prevent this turn into Americanims! Dieter