Cool, then obviously it's just a bug and we'll need to support this and I think there'll be no problems getting this in the next release. Thanks for pointing that out.
________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seo Sanghyeon Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 7:01 PM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: Re: [IronPython] how to change default encoding of string and file at runtime? On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 04:57:32PM -0800, Dino Viehland wrote: > This is an interesting issue... If I take your same code and run it > on CPython it raises an exception: (snip) Actually, this works when you set "defaultencoding". $ python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Nov 20 2005, 16:40:39) [GCC 4.0.3 20051111 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> s = u'\u6211' >>> import sys >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 'ascii' >>> str(s) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u6211' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) >>> reload(sys) <module 'sys' (built-in)> >>> sys.setdefaultencoding('gbk') >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 'gbk' >>> str(s) '\xce\xd2' >>> Hope this help, Seo Sanghyeon _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com