Help : looking for language -> best encoding scheme dict.

David Necas (Yeti) yeti at physics.muni.cz
Tue Dec 10 13:38:34 EST 2002


On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:32:43PM +0100, Gillou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has someone already got a dictionnary (or tuple of tuples) that associate
> the ISO language codes to the prefered encoding scheme for that language (as
> expected by "unicodestring.encode(...)" ).
> 
> In example :
> 
> dict = {
>   'en': 'ascii',
>   'fr': 'iso8859-1',
>   'es': 'iso8859-1,
>   ...}

It may differ between systems.

What about nl_langinfo()?  One of the items is charset.
(unfortunately it's SUSv2, i.e. not available everywhere)

Yeti





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