Hi, I use Mac OSX for development but deploy on a Linux server. (Platform details provided below).
When the locale is set to FR_CA, I am not able to display a u circumflex consistently across the two machines even though the default encoding is set to "ascii" on both machines. Specifically, calendar.month_name[8] returns a ? (question mark) on the Linux server whereas it displays properly on the Mac OSX system. However, if I take the result from calendar.month_name[8] and run it through the following function .... unicode(calendar.month_name[8],"latin1") ... then the u circumflex displays correctly on the Linux server but does not display correctly on my Mac. Of course, I could work around this problem with a relatively simple if statement but these issues are going to show up all over my application so even a simple if statement will start to get cumbersome. I guess what it boils down to is that I would like to get a better handle on what is going on so that I will know how best to work through future encoding issues. Thanks in advance for any advice. Here are the specifics of my problem. On my Mac: Python 2.6.7 (r267:88850, Jul 30 2011, 23:46:53) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'fr_CA') 'fr_CA' >>> import sys >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 'ascii' >>> import calendar >>> calendar.month_name[8] 'ao\xc3\xbbt' >>> print calendar.month_name[8] août >>> print unicode(calendar.month_name[8],"latin1") août On the linux server: uname -a Linux alhena 2.6.32.8-grsec-2.1.14-modsign-xeon-64 #2 SMP Sat Mar 13 00:42:43 PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2010, 17:44:40) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 >>> import locale,sys,calendar >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'fr_CA') 'fr_CA' >>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 'ascii' >>> calendar.month_name[8] 'ao\xfbt' >>> print calendar.month_name[8] ao?t >>> print unicode(calendar.month_name[8],"latin1") août -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
