Jiba 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 ? > > Jiba
Here's what I see in a Windows command prompt interactive session: Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Started with C:/Steve/.pythonrc >>> import sys >>> sys.stdin.encoding 'cp437' >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 'ascii' >>> But in a Cygwin command window on the same machine I see import syPython 2.5b2 (trunk:50713, Jul 19 2006, 16:04:09) [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. sStarted with C:/Steve/.pythonrc >>> import sys >>> sys.stdin.encoding 'US-ASCII' >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 'ascii' >>> The strings in sys.argv are encoded the same as the standard input, I bleieve. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
