[Python-Dev] Proposal: new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING

[Tarek Ziadé]

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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