Re: Fail codecs.lookup() on 'mbcs' and 'tactis'

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Richard Brodie wrote: > I suppose, for consistency, it should ideally raise LookupError, though Maybe so. If that was the poster's point, then I completely missed it. Jeff pgpUjJySHoMrY.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: Fail codecs.lookup() on 'mbcs' and 'tactis'

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't know what 'tactis' is, but 'mbcs' is not a portable character set > name. > It's a special character set name on win32, which refers to some > system-specific > multibyte character set. > > I don't think these "failures" are

Re: Fail codecs.lookup() on 'mbcs' and 'tactis'

I don't know what 'tactis' is, but 'mbcs' is not a portable character set name. It's a special character set name on win32, which refers to some system-specific multibyte character set. I don't think these "failures" are a Python bug. Jeff pgp1JQQPcwk0q.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http:/