David Hopwood wrote: > 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,
This is right... > and a corresponding locale selected as the interface locale for a given user > account. Correction: the "System Locale" is what determines the ANSI and OEM codepages, and this is *not* dependent on the user account. Changing it requires a reboot, so you can assume that it stays constant for the lifetime of a Python process. > The links below should make this clearer. I obviously should have read them more thoroughly myself! :-( > 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>. -- 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
