string.encode on HP-UX

[Michael Hudson]

Richard Townsend <richardt at edshk.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Using Python-2.3.4 on HP-UX11i, the following code:
> 
>   import locale
>   loc = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL)
>   print 'locale =', loc
>   loc = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET)
>   print 'locale =', loc
>   print 'hello'.encode(loc, 'replace')
> 
> produces:
> 
>   locale = C C C C C C
>   locale = roman8
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "test_locale.py", line 13, in ?
>       print 'hello'.encode(loc, 'replace')
>   LookupError: unknown encoding: roman8
> 
> 
> [The same code on SUSE 9.1 doesn't raise an exception].
> 
> Should I be able to pass the value returned by nl_langinfo() to the
> string.encode call?

What is roman8?  If it's some hp-ux specific thingy, I guess the
solution is to teach Python what to do with it.  If it's just HP's
name for iso-8859-1 or something then this is easy (mucking with
encodings.aliases).

If it's some custom encoding, finding out what unicode codepoint each
octet maps to and writing a codec a la macroman can't be impossibly
hard.

I guess a patch would be welcome either way.

Cheers,
mwh

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