[Python-Dev] Proposal: new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Tue May 20 22:22:03 CEST 2008
> Is it to override locale settings in case the user wants a different
> encoding? for such cases as redirected stdout, or windows console (which
> has an "OEM" encoding that differs from the locale encoding)?
On Windows, the setlocale mechanism isn't used at all, since it doesn't
support nl_langinfo (let alone CODESET).
And yes, that is to override whatever determination Python would make on
its own.
>> Naming contest: it probably would be the longest of the PYTHON*
>> variables. I would not want to call it PYTHONENCODING, or
>> PYTHONSTDENCODING, though, because people might infer that it
>> affects sys.getdefaultencoding(), which it shouldn't.
>
> PYTHONIOENCODING?
Unprecise in a different way (as it is meant to apply only to stdout,
not to all IO), but shorter.
Regards,
Martin
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