[Zope] Unicode Error
Dieter Maurer
dieter@handshake.de
Fri, 1 Nov 2002 18:18:03 +0100
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