Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jiba wrote: > > > I am desperately searching for the encoding of sys.argv. > > > > I use a Linux box, with French UTF-8 locales and an UTF-8 filesystem. > > sys.getdefaultencoding() is "ascii" and sys.getfilesystemencoding() is > > "utf-8". However, sys.argv is neither in ASCII (since I can pass French > > accentuated character), nor in UTF-8. It seems to be encoded in > > "latin-1", but why ? > > There is no way to determine the encoding. The application that starts > another and sets the arguments can use any encoding it likes and there's > no standard way to find out which it was.
There is standard way: nl_langinfo function <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/nl_langinfo.html> The code in pythonrun.c properly uses it find out the encoding. The other question if Linux or *BSD distributions confirm to the standard. -- Leo. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
