Peter Maas wrote: >> To summarize the discussion: either it's a bug in glibc or there is an >> option to specify modern POSIX locale. POSIX locale consist of >> characters from the portable character set, unicode is certainly >> portable. > > What about the environment variable LANG? I have SuSE 9.1 and > LANG = de_DE.UTF-8. Your example is running well on my computer.
Python's Unicode subsystem shouldn't depend on the system's LANG setting. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list