python-dev Summary for 2004-01-01 through 2004-01-31

[Michael Hudson]

"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson at bigpond.net.au> writes:

> Brett C.:
> 
> > --------------------------
> > Shutting Unicode errors up
> > --------------------------
> > Enough people have asked for the ability to silence Unicode errors that
> > Martin v. L??wis suggested adding a module attribute in sys to specify
> > whether Unicode errors should be ignored or not.
> 
>    It is particularly appropriate that this item should exhibit a character
> encoding problem. I'm sure Martin doesn't have any characters that weird
> (square root,  partial differential) in his name. Something is wrong in the
> tool chain, but it doesn't look like a simple incorrect charset declaration.
> Maybe reST has a problem with non-ASCII characters.

Um, the article as posted to clpy is hasn't been through docutils
yet... if the mere fact of formatting it as reST caused encoding
problems, that would indeed be a mysterious and deep effect.

Brett's mail contains a header:

X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by
	war.OCF.Berkeley.EDU id i1O1oOqk029956

I'd be inclined to blame that.

The summary looks fine on python.org.

Cheers,
mwh

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