But how would a system-wide default encoding help with any of these situations? These situations are IN FACT caused by system-wide default encodings used by naive programmers. Python should be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
On 9/6/06, Oleg Broytmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 03:08:21AM -0700, Paul Prescod wrote: > ... > Unfortunately, the real world is a bit worse than that. There are many > protocol and file formats that cary textual information and still don't > provide a hint on encoding. > First, there are text files. Really, there are still text files. A user > can dump a README file unto his/her personal FTP server, and the file > ususally is in the local encoding. > MP3 tags. Real nightmare. Nobody follows the standard - tag editors > write tags in the local encoding, and mp3 players interpret them in the > local encoding. > FTP and other dumb protocols that transfer file names in the encoding > local to the server without announcing that encoding in the metadata. > > Oleg. > -- > Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
