Ivan Voras wrote: > I have a string fetched from database, in iso8859-2, with 8bit > characters, and I'm trying to send it over the network, via a socket: > > File "E:\Python24\lib\socket.py", line 249, in write > data = str(data) # XXX Should really reject non-string non-buffers > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0161' in > position 123: ordinal not in range(128) > > The other end knows it should expect this encoding, so how to send it? > > (Does anyone else feel that python's unicode handling is, well... > suboptimal at least?)
you mean it should be able to automagically infer that you want your Unicode strings to be shipped in ISO-8859-2 when you write them to a socket? wouldn't that annoy everyone using more common en- codings, such as ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, and EUC-JP? (the only "suboptimal" thing with Python's Unicode system is that it forces you to learn that text is not just a bunch of bytes. for some reason, some programmers find that being extremely hard -- and for some reason, the same programmers usually have no problems understanding that python integers, floats, and other objects are not just a bunch of bytes. go figure...) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
