Re: Re: Unknown encoding after 0.1.14

On Monday 26 December 2005 09:06 pm, Luis Otero wrote:
> > Well that's just great. You're getting a language code back instead of an
> > encoding (second argument). My machine (FC4) returns the right encoding
> > for your locale, as do both debian machines I've checked. One of the
> > debian machines lists "3.1" in /etc/debian_version, is that what you get?
>
> Yep.
>
> > Can you give the output of the following:
> > python -c "import sys; print sys.stdin.encoding"
>
> ISO-8859-15
>
> > python -c "import locale; print locale.getpreferredencoding()"
>
> ISO-8859-15

This is correct. When one uses different locales in categories, 
getdefaultlocale does not return a right answer for encoding anyway. 
getpreferredencoding should be used, IMHO.

Okuji