Ordinal not in range(128)

[Jarek Zgoda]

Fabien HENON <fabien.henon at caramail.com> pisze:
 
> In my case, my editor is multilanguage and users can choose between many 
>   fonts. I am not a Unix guru, but latin-1 is for Western Europe (?). Is 
> it going to work for polish or Spaniards,...

No, it will not work for Polish (and any CE - Czech, Slovak, Slovene or
Croatian) locales - standard *nix is iso-8859-2 (Latin2), Windows is
CP1250.
Maybe you can use sys.getdefaultencoding() or locale.getdefaultlocale()
to obtain current character encoding?

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Jarek Zgoda
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