Strange problems with encoding

[Fredrik Lundh]

Rudy Schockaert wrote:

> At the end of site.py you can enable a piece of code that sets your
> default encoding to the current locale of your computer:
>
> if 1:
>      # Enable to support locale aware default string encodings.
>      import locale
>      loc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
>      if loc[1]:
>          encoding = loc[1]
>
> This works great for me.

instead of hacking your Python installation, I suggest using
explicit calls to the "encode" method wherever you need to
convert from Unicode to binary data on the way out.

> P.S. I really need some weeks off so I can read all the available
> documentation ;-)

it shouldn't take you more than 15-20 minutes to learn enough
about Unicode to be able to write Python code that processes
non-ASCII text in a reliable and portable way:

short version:
    http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-objects.htm

long version:
    http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

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