On 2006-07-17 Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> That might be a good heuristic - but on my Mac no LANG is set. So I >>>> should paraphrase my statement to "There is no reliable and >>>> cross-platform way figuring out which encoding the console uses". > >>> If LANG is not set, it's equivalent to setting it to "C". However, >>> you shouldn't look directly at these variables (LANG and LC_*) but >>> rather use the functions from the locale module, e.g.: > >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') # use the current locale settings >>> encoding = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET) > > But if LANG isn't set (like on Mac OS X) this doesn't give you the proper > encoding.
Well, yes, but it gives you something "safe" and you can advise the user to set the locale. > On my system I have added LANG to .profile. That's certainly the right thing to do. -- Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key at <http://www.dynalabs.de/mxp/pubkey.txt> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
