[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Okay, I'll use one of the CJK codecs as the example. EUC-KR is the > > default encoding. > > > > >>> import sys;sys.getdefaultencoding() > > 'euc-kr' > > >>> 'íê' > > '\xc7\xd1\xb1\xdb'
That is the problem. Non-ascii characters in byte strings are deprecated. Here is what I get when I run a deprecated hello world program in Russian: ------- hello.py --------- print "ÐÐÑÐÐÑÑÐÑÐ, ÐÐÑ!" -------------------------- C:\py>c:\Python24\python.exe hello.py sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xc7' in file text.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details âÑÐÑÑÑÐÑÑÑ, ÑÑÐ! -------------------------- Oops, not only there is a warning, but it doesn't even work on Windows in Russian locale. To correct the program I need to switch to unicode strings: ------- hello.py --------- # -*- coding: windows-1251 -*- print u"ÐÐÑÐÐÑÑÐÑÐ, ÐÐÑ!" -------------------------- C:\py>c:\Python24\python.exe hello.py ÐÐÑÐÐÑÑÐÑÐ, ÐÐÑ! -------------------------- Since non-ascii characters are deprecated in byte strings, any non-ascii encoding for sys.getdefaultencoding() is deprecated as well. Don't set it to 'euc-kr'. > Any suggestions or any plans in future python versions? In python 3.0 byte strings will be gone. So you won't be able to put non-ascii characters into them. Serge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
