Harald Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>> >>> A software development system which REALLY solves the encodings >>> problem WITHOUT creating a swarm of new ones could would challange >>> even my devotedness to Python :)))) >> >> AFAIK, McMillan Installer solves this by including all the encodings >> stuff by default, and it has a --ascii flag to override this >> behaviour. Would that be a solution? > > Thomas, > > I solved the headaches with py2exe and encodings, again and again ... > even documented some of these steps within the wiki.
Much appreciated! > But encodings still give me new pain any day: storing filenames to > databases, displaying filenames in windows-controls, sending > database-extracts to excel or word ... time on time encodings and/or > unicode errors pop up and cause me misery. > > So my cryout is for a solution for all encoding-problems like the python > for-loop or list-comprehensions: elegant, simple, robust, flexible. Easy > to use, easy to implement. Armin, Would the above (include all encodings stuff by default) be a good solution, or do you have other ideas? Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list