Hello everyone, Before I pose my question, I should mention that I'm still pretty unfamiliar with proper terminology for string encoding, so I might get some of it wrong. Please bear with me.
I'm writing a program that accepts arguments from the command line. Some of my users are using Windows with a non-unicode locale setting and characters outside of the ascii set. So something like $ program --option <Cyrillic text> ultimately results in "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-3: invalid data" My questions: 1) Is it safe to immediately decode all strings in sys.argv[] with something like sys.argv = [string.decode(sys.stdin.encoding) for string in sys.argv]? 2) Can something similar be done to anything returned by raw_input()? Thanks, Tom
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