> What defines me as latin1-user? That your locale is based on Latin-1, e.g. because it is a German locale. How precisely that works depends on the operating system.
> So my system seems to be an ASCII system? At least that's what Python determined. If Python couldn't have found out that you usually use Latin-1, your system is misconfigured. If Python could have found out, but failed to do so, it's a bug in Python. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list