[Pythonmac-SIG] charset conversions

[tmk [microscript]]

Thanks Jack (and Just).

I'll be waiting for Python 2.

I'm planning to use this feature extensively for web form processing (being
able to correctly handle european languages like french and spanish) and
email (MIME seems to favor ISO-8859-N encodings).

I'll certainly report my findings back to the list as soon as I've been able
to experiment with MacPython 2 beta.

Btw, any hint as yet as to whether MacPython 2 beta is carbonized for MacOS
X (Public Beta) (as opposed to still being a 'classic' app). I'm planning to
switch to that OS as my main OS as soon as it's available (ie hopefully by
the end of the week).

Another btw are some mac pythoneer going to be present on Apple Expo on
Paris on the 13th? I'll be there and it would be cool some of you guys and
gals :-).

= tmk =

> From: Jack Jansen <jack@oratrix.nl>
> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 14:30:02 +0200
> To: "tmk [microscript]" <tmk@microscript.be>
> Cc: Python Mac mailing list <pythonmac-sig@python.org>
> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] charset conversions
> 
> 
> Recently, "tmk [microscript]" <tmk@microscript.be> said:
>> Yo,
>> 
>> I'm looking into doing character set conversions in Python (e.g. from
>> MacRoman to ISO-8859-1).
>> 
>> I was wondering if it already exists some stuff in this area. I've tried
>> looking in the current library of python modules but I was unable to find
>> something of interest.
> 
> Up until recently MacPython was confused: some parts of the system
> thought it was iso-latin-1, others thought it was macroman. (And most parts
> didn't have a clue:-).
> 
> As of 2.0b1 (which is due in a few days) MacPython will have Unicode
> support and converters between the various charsets. If you have
> applications that do character conversion it would be very helpful if
> you could try the unicode support and provide feedback on how well it
> is working.
> 
> There is a potential downside to the Unicode support: there's a good
> chance that strings (as in "text-strings", binary data is fine) that
> have 8-bit characters in them will stop working in various areas such
> as regular expressions. This is because the Python default character
> encoding has been changed to "ascii". You should be able to set it to
> either MacRoman or iso-latin-1 yourself, though.
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