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

[Michael Foord]

On 08/03/2010 18:23, Dino Viehland wrote:
> Silverlight (at the CLR level) only includes UTF8 - no other encodings are
> available.  That's the reason why latin_1 isn't available (which makes sense)
> and basically the reason why UnicodeEncodeError isn't available (which makes
> less sense as I think we're just missing the .NET exception to map it onto).
>
> We could certainly fix the missing UnicodeEncodeError but for latin-1
> you could probably publish your own latin_1_encode method into the
> codecs module.
>    

Ok. Even though it's still annoying at least it makes sense now. :-)

Michael

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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
>> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 4:32 AM
>> To: Discussion of IronPython
>> Subject: [IronPython] Silverlight: UnicodeEncodeError not defined and other
>> encoding issues
>>
>> 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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