[Python-Dev] Proposal: new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Tue May 20 13:33:41 CEST 2008

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote:

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?

What about PYTHONLANG ?

or something that tries to reflect which environment variables are used for this ?

(LC_CTYPE -> PYTHONCTYPE ? if the code uses just LC_CTYPE)

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_02

Just for my own knowledge: why it has to be one word ? can't it be PYTHON_LANG ?

Tarek

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