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. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.