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[Erik Bågfors]

On 11 Apr 2005 11:41:27 +0200, Lele Gaifax <lele at nautilus.homeip.net> wrote:
> >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>     Erik> Thanks lele. You are right. It gives me ascii.  Should
>     Erik> python take this from locale? It's all UTF-8 there?
> 
>     Erik> : [bagfors at zyrgelkwytng]$ ; locale LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
> 
> As said, this depends on the system setup for Python. You didn't
> mention which distro you're using, but you should be able to locate
> either an /etc/python/site.py or an equivalent somewhere under the
> /usr/lib/python2.3/ tree.
> 
> It should contain a call to sys.setdefaultencoding(). Debian does it
> this way:
> 
>     encoding = "ascii" # Default value set by _PyUnicode_Init()
> 
>     if 1:  ## <------- THIS is 0 by default
>         # Enable to support locale aware default string encodings.
>         import locale
>         loc = locale.getdefaultlocale()
>         if loc[1]:
>             encoding = loc[1]
> 
>     if 0:
>         # Enable to switch off string to Unicode coercion and implicit
>         # Unicode to string conversion.
>         encoding = "undefined"
> 
>     if encoding != "ascii":
>         # On Non-Unicode builds this will raise an AttributeError...
>         sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding) # Needs Python Unicode build !

I'm on ubuntu and your first "if 1:" is "if 0:" I consider this a bug
since hoary is UTF8 per default.

I'll see if there is a bug open on this.

Regards,
Erik