Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > Sometimes > encoding problems in Python are driving me mad.
The thing is, they are not "encoding problems in Python", they are encoding problems in the outside world. Python cannot know magically which encoding is used in third-party data, so you have to tell it yourself what the encoding is. The default is "ascii" because only ASCII chars (from 32 to 127) can be interpreted properly in most situations without having any knowledge of the encoding (barring obsolete stuff such as EBCDIC, that is). The only solution is to know what encoding you are expecting and decode/encode it yourself. Python can't decide it for you. ---------- nosy: +pitrou resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3648> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
