John Roth wrote: >> That is the default. > > > As far as I can tell, there are actually two defaults, which tends > to confuse things.
Notice that there are two defaults already in the operating system: Windows has the notion of the "ANSI code page" and the "OEM code page", which are used in different contexts. > 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.) You mean, in Python? No, this is not how it works. On output of 8-bit strings to stdout, no conversion is ever performed: the byte strings are written to stdout as-is. > The other is used whenever the unicode to 8-bit conversion > doesn't have a context - that's usually Ascii-7. Again, you seem to be talking about Unicode conversions - it's not clear that the OP is actually interested in Unicode conversion in the first place. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
