Paul Prescod wrote: > Guido has asked me to do some research in aid of a file encoding > detection/defaulting PEP. > > I only have access to a small number of operating systems and language > variants so I need help. > > If you have access to "German Windows XP", "Japanese Windows XP",
Since Win2K there is actually no such thing, from a technical point of view -- just Win2K or WinXP with a German or Japanese "language group" installed, and a corresponding locale selected as the interface locale for a given user account. The links below should make this clearer. > "Spanish OS X", "Japanese OS X", "German Ubuntu" etc., I would appreciate > answers to the following questions. > > 1. On US English Windows, Notepad defaults to an encoding called "ANSI". > "ANSI" is not a real encoding at all (and certainly not one from the > American National Standards Institute -- they should sue!). ANSI is just > the default Windows character set for your localization set. What does > "ANSI" map to in European and Asian versions of Windows? See <http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/faqs/Locales.mspx>, <http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/WinCP.mspx>, and <http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/win2k/setup/localsupport.mspx>. Each "language group" maps to a similarly named "ANSI" code page (and also an "OEM" code page) in the obvious way. -- David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
