Problem with national characters

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
> Is there a way around this problem? My character set in Linux is
> ISO-8859-1. In Windows 2000 it should be the equivavent Latin-1, though
> I'm not sure about which character set the command shell is using.

You need to do locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "") to get
locale-specific upper-casing.

Notice that things are more difficult in the Windows terminal window,
as this uses an encoding different from the one that the system's
locale functions expect.

Regards,
Martin