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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:22:37AM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
> I'd like to propose a new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING.
> This is meant to solve various problems that people had with Python
> not detecting their terminal encoding correctly; it would override
> any detection that Python would use for determining the encoding of
> stdout (and stdin - but that's less relevant in 2.x).

  Is it to override locale settings in case the user wants a different
encoding? for such cases as redirected stdout, or windows console (which
has an "OEM" encoding that differs from the locale encoding)?

> Naming contest: it probably would be the longest of the PYTHON\*
> variables. I would not want to call it PYTHONENCODING, or
> PYTHONSTDENCODING, though, because people might infer that it
> affects sys.getdefaultencoding(), which it shouldn't.

  PYTHONIOENCODING?

Oleg.
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    Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd@phd.pp.ru
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