On 11/21/2012 06:24 AM, danielk wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 6:03:47 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
>>>
>>
>> In Linux, your terminal encoding is probably either UTF-8 or Latin-1,
>>
>> and either way it has no problems encoding that data for output. In a
>>
>> Windows cmd terminal, the default t
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 03:24:01 -0800, danielk wrote:
>> >>> import sys
>> >>> sys.stdout.encoding
>> 'cp437'
>
> Hmmm. So THAT'S why I am only able to use 'cp437'. I had (mistakenly)
> thought that I could just indicate whatever encoding I wanted, as long as
> the codec supported it.
sys.stdout.enc
On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 6:03:47 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Daniel Klein wrote:
>
> > With the assistance of this group I am understanding unicode encoding issues
>
> > much better; especially when handling special characters that are outside of
>
> > the ASCII
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Daniel Klein wrote:
> With the assistance of this group I am understanding unicode encoding issues
> much better; especially when handling special characters that are outside of
> the ASCII range. I've got my application working perfectly now :-)
>
> However, I am
On 11/20/2012 04:49 PM, Daniel Klein wrote:
> With the assistance of this group I am understanding unicode encoding
> issues much better; especially when handling special characters that are
> outside of the ASCII range. I've got my application working perfectly now
> :-)
>
> However, I am still co
With the assistance of this group I am understanding unicode encoding
issues much better; especially when handling special characters that are
outside of the ASCII range. I've got my application working perfectly now
:-)
However, I am still confused as to why I can only use one specific encoding.