> In a nutshell, this is likely to cause pain until all file systems are > standardized on a particular encoding of Unicode. Probably only about > another fifteen years to go ...
well, most Linux distros are defaulting to a UTF-8 locale now, the exception beeing Gentoo&similar that expect the user to know what to configure - which he often doesn't :) but, yes, there's no way of enforcing that. -- дамјан ( http://softver.org.mk/damjan/ ) ... knowledge is exactly like power - something to be distributed as widely as humanly possible, for the betterment of all. -- jd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list