copx wrote: > For some reason Python (on Windows) doesn't use the system's default > character set and that's a serious problem for me.
I very much doubt this statement: Python does "use" the system's default character set on Windows. What makes you think it doesn't? > Is it possible to tell Python to use an 8bit charset (latin-1 in my case) > for textfile and string processing by default? That is the default. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list