"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Heller wrote: >> It seems that Python itself converts unicode entries in sys.path to >> normal strings using windows default conversion rules - is this a >> problem that I can fix by changing some regional setting on my machine? > > You can set the system code page on the third tab on the XP > regional settings (character set for non-unicode applications). > This, of course, assumes that there is a character set that supports > all directories in sys.path. If you have Japanese characters on > sys.path, you certainly need to set the system locale to Japanese > (is that CP932?). > > Changing this setting requires a reboot. > >> Hm, maybe more a windows question than a python question... > > The real question here is: why does Python not support arbitrary > Unicode strings on sys.path? It could, in principle, atleast on > Windows NT+ (and also on OSX). Patches are welcome.
How should these patches be approached? On windows, it would probably be easiest to use the MS generic text routines: _tcslen instead of strlen, for example, and to rely on the _UNICODE preprocessor symbol to map this function to strlen or wcslen. Is there a similar thing in the non-windows world? Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
