2011/8/5 Geoff Wright <geoffwright...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I use Mac OSX for development but deploy on a Linux server. (Platform > details provided below). > > When the locale is set to FR_CA, I am not able to display a u circumflex > consistently across the two machines even though the default encoding is set > to "ascii" on both machines. ... > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Hi, I believe, sys.getdefaultencoding() isn't relevant here; you could try to determine the locale encoding via locale.getlocale() - it should return a tuple with language code and the encoding name http://docs.python.org/library/locale.html#locale.getlocale I suppose, you get the respective encodings on both of your different systems. I somehow can't find the Canadian locale on my OS (win XP, Czech), but hopefully the results are equivalent with French, I checked: cf Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> import locale >>> import calendar >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'French') 'French_France.1252' >>> locale.getlocale() ('fr_FR', 'cp1252') >>> calendar.month_name[8] 'ao\xfbt' >>> print calendar.month_name[8] aoűt >>> unicode(calendar.month_name[8], locale.getlocale()[1]) u'ao\xfbt' >>> print unicode(calendar.month_name[8], locale.getlocale()[1]) août >>> ==== The above are the results in Idle and wx pyshell, i.e. unicode-enabled shells; on non-unicode cmd shell in windows I get: >>> print calendar.month_name[8] aout and even: >>> print unicode(calendar.month_name[8], locale.getlocale()[1]) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp852.py", line 12, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map) UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xfb' in position 2 : character maps to <undefined> >>> hth, vbr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
