Benjamin Peterson writes: >Nobody <nobody <at> nowhere.com> writes: >> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:21:49 +0000, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> 1. Does Python offer any assistance in doing so, or do you have to >> manually convert the surrogates which are generated for unrecognised bytes? > > fs_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding() > bytes_argv = [arg.encode(fs_encoding, "surrogateescape") for arg in sys.argv] > >> 2. How do you do this for non-invertible encodings (e.g. ISO-2022)? > > What's a non-invertible encoding? I can't find a reference to the term.
Different ISO-2022 strings can map to the same Unicode string. Thus you can convert back to _some_ ISO-2022 string, but it won't necessarily match the original. -- Hallvard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
