[Python-Dev] Logging, Unicode and sockets

[Vinay Sajip]

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Thanks to 

http://bugs.python.org/issue7077

I've noticed that the socket-based logging handlers - SocketHandler,
DatagramHandler and SysLogHandler - aren't Unicode-aware and can break in the
presence of Unicode messages. I'd like to fix this by giving these handlers an
optional (encoding=None) parameter in their __init__, and then using this to
encode on output. If no encoding is specified, is it best to use
locale.getpreferredencoding(), sys.getdefaultencoding(),
sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'utf-8' or something else? On my system:

>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'ascii'
>>> sys.getfilesystemencoding()
'mbcs'
>>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
'cp1252'

which suggests to me that the locale.getpreferredencoding() should be the
default. However, as I'm not a Unicode maven, any suggestions would be welcome.

Regards,


Vinay Sajip