Le lundi 14 février 2011 à 12:42 +0000, Ian Jackson a écrit : > Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical? (was: Re: > RFA: all my packages)"): > > Kicking out software that doesn?t work at all in UTF-8 locales and > > requires the user to set a broken locale, OTOH, sounds like a sanitary > > emergency. > > Excellent, I look forward to the removal of python. I always hated > that language anyway.
From your reply I look more forward to the removal of vm, since it broke the Unicode in my original email. > $ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"' | cat > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in > position 0: ordinal not in range(128) > $ You must specify the encoding of your data in your bitstreams. I agree this is inconvenient (and one of the things I dislike in Python), but it is: 1. completely independent of the locale (UTF8 or not) 2. easy to work with once you understand how encodings in Python work 3. much better in Python 3. -- .''`. : :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know `. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.” `- -- J???rg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297698390.8791.72.camel@meh