On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 19:06, Alex Martelli wrote: > Uwe Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > well, I wrote a nice python program which won't work if the default encoding > > has not been set from ascii to latin-1 or latin-15. > > Then your program is not very nice...;-) Agreed. I prefer to use explicit str.encode(), str.decode() and unicode() calls where appropriate. On a side note, PEP 263 handles the text encoding interpretation of Python program source, and is well worth reading and following. http://python.org/peps/pep-0263.html -- Craig Ringer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list