In Leopard (OSX 10.5), it looks like LANG is set to convey this: it has the value en_US.UTF-8 for me, and I haven't done anything to change it. The Preferences dialog is completely changed from 10.4 and there's a checkbox (on by default AFAIK) to set the LANG variable. (However I've noticed that it doesn't set an encoding when I specify another encoding other than UTF-8 -- perhaps because there is interaction with the Language choice.)
In 10.4 LANG isn't set at all. The effect is that in 10.5, sys.stdout.encoding defaults to UTF-8 but in 10.4 to US-ASCII. Maybe a decent rule of thumb would be: - if LANG is set, use the encoding it specifies; if there's no encoding in it, assume it's ASCII. - if LANG is *not* set, default to UTF-8 instead of to US-ASCII; UTF-8 is much more likely to be correct and useful for 10.4 and before. --Guido On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:21 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The code that guesses the default stdout encoding isn't very good, > > especially not on OSX. Suggestions are welcome. > > Unfortunately, Apple isn't very cooperative here. There is no way > of determining the encoding of a Terminal.app window, AFAIK > (it's normally UTF-8, unless the user has changed it). > > Regards, > Martin > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
