Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding(VS.80).aspx >> >> Looks like we could add a few more aliases for other encodings as well. > > I wouldn't trust this table. Microsoft is on record of implementing the > code pages with slight variations compared to other references for some > encodings (in particular the Asian ones). So unless there is an actual > documented need for a certain alias (and preferably a demonstration that > Microsoft's interpretation of the code page is the same as Python's), > I would advise against adding such aliases.
Fair enough. Could someone with some IronPython/.NET foo check whether the code pages are the same as the Python codecs ? The above page has some sample code to get started and IronPython provides easy access to both the .NET codecs and the Python ones. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6058> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com