"Serge Orlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Paul Boddie wrote: > > Anyone who has needed to expose filesystems > > created by Linux distributions before the UTF-8 "big push" to later > > distributions can attest to the fact that the "see no evil" brass > > monkey is wearing a T-shirt with "UTF-8" written on it. > > Unfortunately the monkey is painted in the air with a stick, so > not everyone can see it. Python can't. Given a random linux system > how can you tell if the monkey has pushed it already or not?
That's a good question. See this article for an example of the frustration caused: http://groups.google.no/groups?selm=b1npav%24cci%241%40slb6.atl.mindspring.net&output=gplain Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
