Hi Fredrik, thanks for responding. After reading up some more on this, I think my title should be changed to "How to get Python to default to ASCII". In point of fact, I want my 2 environments to agree so that I can debug thinkgs more easily. Right now it's a nightmare.
As to your questions, in this example, I believe the exception was caused by trying to do a count of the number of times a string appears in an array. One of the strings was unicode and the other was encoded by Python by default. "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > weheh wrote: > >> I'm developing a cgi-bin application that must be unicode sensitive. I'm >> striving for a UTF8 implementation. I'm running python 2.3 on a >> development >> machine (windows xp) and a server (windows xp server). Both environments >> are running Apache 2.2 with the same configuration file. >> >> The problem is this. On my development machine I get the following >> unicode error: >> >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 4-6: >> invalid data >> args = ('utf8', 'adem\xe3\xa1s', 4, 7, 'invalid data') >> encoding = 'utf8' >> end = 7 >> object = 'adem\xe3\xa1s' >> reason = 'invalid data' >> start = 4 > > Could be that sys.stdin.encoding differs between the setups. > > *Where* do you get this exception? In the database layer? When the > script is trying to read things from a file? When it's trying to output > things? Somewhere else? > > </F> > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
