Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Jarek Zgoda]

Jarek Zgoda <jzgoda at usun.gazeta.pl> pisze:
 
>> (I hope you do have Python 2.3a to test it on your computer.)
> 
> Not yet, but I'll try to install the beast today evening. This behavior
> was observed using 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 on Windows NT4SP6a, locale set to
> Polish, but system character encoding left default (I think it's
> cp1252). Anyway, I don't think it's a Python problem, rather Windows
> fault.

I discovered the same behavior on Win2kSp3, locale pl_PL, cp1250. The
command prompt console still claims it has cp437, but prints characters
from outside ASCII range. I cann't get it, this OS makes me sick. I give
up.

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Jarek Zgoda
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