On 2006-10-23, Jiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am desperately searching for the encoding of sys.argv. > > I use a Linux box, with French UTF-8 locales and an UTF-8 > filesystem. sys.getdefaultencoding() is "ascii" and > sys.getfilesystemencoding() is "utf-8". However, sys.argv is > neither in ASCII (since I can pass French accentuated > character), nor in UTF-8. It seems to be encoded in "latin-1", > but why ?
It will most likely be in the encoding of the terminal from which you call Python, in other words, sys.stdin.encoding. Your only hope of accepting non-US-ASCII command line arguments in this manner is that sys.stdin.encoding is divined correctly by Python. -- Neil Cerutti Facts are stupid things. --Ronald Reagan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
