On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Geoff Wright <geoffwright...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I use Mac OSX for development but deploy on a Linux server. (Platform > details provided below). > > When the locale is set to FR_CA, I am not able to display a u circumflex > consistently across the two machines even though the default encoding is set > to "ascii" on both machines.
ASCII can't represent a circumflex anyway, and I think the "default encoding" is distinct from the locale-set encoding, so I don't think the default encoding matters here. > Specifically, calendar.month_name[8] returns a ? (question mark) on the Linux >server whereas it displays properly on the Mac OSX system. However, if I take >the result from calendar.month_name[8] and run it through the following >function .... unicode(calendar.month_name[8],"latin1") ... then the u >circumflex displays correctly on the Linux server but does not display >correctly on my Mac. > > Of course, I could work around this problem with a relatively simple if > statement but these issues are going to show up all over my application so > even a simple if statement will start to get cumbersome. > > I guess what it boils down to is that I would like to get a better handle on > what is going on so that I will know how best to work through future encoding > issues. Thanks in advance for any advice. > > Here are the specifics of my problem. > > On my Mac: > > Python 2.6.7 (r267:88850, Jul 30 2011, 23:46:53) > [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin <snip> >>>> calendar.month_name[8] > 'ao\xc3\xbbt' >>>> print calendar.month_name[8] > août >>>> print unicode(calendar.month_name[8],"latin1") > août > > On the linux server: > > uname -a > Linux alhena 2.6.32.8-grsec-2.1.14-modsign-xeon-64 #2 SMP Sat Mar 13 00:42:43 > PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2010, 17:44:40) > [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 <snip> >>>> calendar.month_name[8] > 'ao\xfbt' >>>> print calendar.month_name[8] > ao?t >>>> print unicode(calendar.month_name[8],"latin1") > août Some quick experimentation seems to indicate that your month names are Latin-1-encoded on Linux and UTF-8-encoded on Mac. Perhaps try using a locale that specifies a specific encoding? e.g. fr_CA.UTF-8 Cheers, Chris -- http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
