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> I don't know what 'tactis' is, but 'mbcs' is not a portable character set > name. > It's a special character set name on win32, which refers to some > system-specific > multibyte character set. > > I don't think these "failures" are a Python bug. I suppose, for consistency, it should ideally raise LookupError, though -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
