> Thanks, I'll then use sys.getfilesystemencoding() to decode _file__ > and re-encode into utf-8, which is the default encoding of all strings > in our software, as we deal a bit with Chinese terms. > > Windows-1252 on my box. I just created a directory containing Chinese > characters (on Vista), and whoa, files opened with IDLE are empty, > import doesn't find modules in that directory. Of course Windows-1252 > can't encode these ... > > But I understand that Python 3 will clean this up?
In theory, yes. The current implementation doesn't. Contributions are welcome. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
