Tim Golden wrote: > Ah, I see. I'm so used to Windows where there is, technically an encoding > for the console window, but you can't really do anything about > it (apart from the awkward chcp) and it isn't really in your face. I > do *use* Linux sometimes, but I don't really think in it :)
Actually you would run into the same problems on Windows if you tried to print UTF-8 or Unicode data. The only reason the Windows encoding is not in your face is that enough data is in ascii/latin-1/cp1252 that you can coast along in blissful ignorance. As soon as you have to deal with text in Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Russian/Turkish/Arabic/Greek/Hebrew/Thai/Klingon/etc you will have a rude awakening and a quick lesson in encoding awareness. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
