Ron Garret <rNOSPAMon <at> flownet.com> writes: > > I'm writing a little wiki that I call µWiki. That's a lowercase Greek > mu at the beginning (it's pronounced micro-wiki). It's working, except > that I can't actually enter the name of the wiki into the wiki itself > because the default unicode encoding on my Python installation is > "ascii". So I'm trying to decide on a course of action. There seem to > be three possibilities:
You should never have to rely on the default encoding. You should explicitly decode and encode data. > > 1. Change the code to properly support unicode. Preliminary > investigations indicate that this is going to be a colossal pain in the > ass. Properly handling unicode may be painful at first, but it will surely pay off in the future. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
