Reliably getting/setting the (current) encoding name?

[Michael Hudson]

"Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at rogers.com> writes:

> The codecs module doesn't appear to have a "get default codec name"
> function.  So I'm asking the question:
> 
>     How does one reliably get the currently-active default codec name
>     (i.e. the one that reflects the currently-set locale) as suitable
>     for use with uncode.encode( ... )?

I don't know the answer to this one, I'm afraid.

> and idealy:
> 
>     How does one set the default encoding to be used by:
>         str( unicode )
>     and
>         "My log message: value = %s"%( unicode )
>     ?
> 
> to avoid ASCII-encoding errors everywhere, without having to add
> conversion code all over the joint?

Here I'd say: don't add conversion code "all over the joint", add it
"at the edges", i.e. where the unicode strings get into your library.

Cheers,
M.

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