Op do, 07-09-2006 te 12:21 -0700, schreef Paul Prescod: > 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", > "Spanish OS X", "Japanese OS X", "German Ubuntu" etc., I would > appreciate answers to the following questions. [...] > 3. In general, how do modern versions of Linux and other Unix handle > this issue? In particular: what is your default encoding and how did > your operating system determine it? Did you install a locale-specific > version? Did the installer ask you? Did you edit a configuration file? > Did you change a GUI setting? What is the relationship between your > localization of Gnome/KDE and your default encoding?
AFAIK Ubuntu has used UTF-8 as the default encoding for all languages since the 'hoary' release (version 5.04, which was the 2nd Ubuntu release). -- Jan Claeys _______________________________________________ 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
