[Python-Dev] ascii default encoding

[Jack Jansen]

> > On the Macintosh string.whitespace is '\011\012\013\014\015 \312', bu=
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> > the \312 causes problems because it can't be converted from/to unicod=
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> > as long as the default encoding is ascii...
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> on windows and unix boxes, the default locale is "posix" (aka "C"),
> which in practice means "plain ascii".  the only way to end up with
> non-ascii characters in whitespace/uppercase/lowercase/etc is to
> explicitly change the locale (by calling locale.setlocale).

On the Mac, under CodeWarrior, the default locale (and, actually, the onl=
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locale) is "C", and it uses the mac-roman charset, so including the upper=
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characters.
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