How to use 8bit character sets?
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Jun 13 00:55:03 EDT 2005
copx wrote:
> For some reason Python (on Windows) doesn't use the system's default
> character set and that's a serious problem for me.
I very much doubt this statement: Python does "use" the system's default
character set on Windows. What makes you think it doesn't?
> Is it possible to tell Python to use an 8bit charset (latin-1 in my case)
> for textfile and string processing by default?
That is the default.
Regards,
Martin
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