[Python-Dev] Fwd: i18n

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/25/2010 9:06 PM, Neil Hodgson wrote:
> Terry Reedy:
>
>>   File "C:\Python26\lib\socket.py", line 406, in readline
>>     data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
>> socket.error: [Errno 10054] A lÚtez§ kapcsolatot a tßvoli ßllomßs
>> kÚnyszerÝtette n bezßrta
>
>     That is pretty good mojibake. One of the problems of providing
> localized error messages is that the messages may be messed up at
> different stages. The original text was
> A létező kapcsolatot a távoli állomás kényszerítetten bezárta.
>     It was printed in iso8859_2 (ISO standard for Eastern European)
> then those bytes were pasted in as if they were cp852 (MS-DOS Eastern
> European).
>
> text = "A létező kapcsolatot a távoli állomás kényszerítetten bezárta."
> print(str(text.encode('iso8859_2'), 'cp852'))

Which is to say that pasting the 'message' into a translator would not 
work to well ;-)
Which is to say that the original *really* should be included.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy