""Martin v. Löwis"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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.
As far as I can tell, there are actually two defaults, which tends to confuse things. One is used whenever a unicode to 8-bit conversion is needed on output to stdout, stderr or similar; that's usually Latin-1 (or whatever the installation has set up.) The other is used whenever the unicode to 8-bit conversion doesn't have a context - that's usually Ascii-7. John Roth > > Regards, > Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
