""Martin v. Löwis"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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.
That's true, but I was talking about outputing unicode strings, not 8-bit strings. As you say below, the OP may not have been talking about that. >> 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 John Roth -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
