[IronPython] Silverlight: UnicodeEncodeError not defined and other encoding issues

[Michael Foord]

Hey all,

Using Silverlight 2.6.1 RC:

NameError: global name UnicodeEncodeError is not defined

Oops (and a problem for us).

Also: 'some string'.encode('latin-1') results in:

     LookupError: unknown encoding: latin-1

If I then add the codecs and encodings standard library modules to our 
application I get the following exception:

     AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'latin_1_encode'

The error is in line 17 of the encodings/latin_1.py module:

     encode = codecs.latin_1_encode

This unfortunately kills a fair bit of Python code and means I'm going 
to have to rewrite a chunk of the library we're using. :-(

Thanks

Michael Foord

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