Jiba schrieb: > 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 ?
Let me second Leo Kislov's analysis. They should be encoded in locale.getpreferredencoding(), which should be UTF-8. Are you *sure* they aren't encoded in this way? On my Debian system, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ echo $LANG de_DE.UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ cat a.py import sys print sys.argv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ python a.py Martin v. Löwis ['a.py', 'Martin', 'v.', 'L\xc3\xb6wis'] So clearly, my terminal application + shell passes them as UTF-8, as it should. The terminal application is KDE konsole; the shell is bash. The shell *pretty likely* passes the arguments "through" as-read from the terminal, so if you are not seeing UTF-8, you have managed to misconfigure your terminal. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
