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 ?
Your system is misconfigured, complain to your distribution. On UNIX sys.getfilesystemencoding(), sys.stdin.encoding, sys.stdout.encoding, locale.getprefferedencoding and the encoding of the characters you type should be the same. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
