Does Python mess with the (unicode) code page?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Thu Dec 3 13:38:28 EST 2009
We've got a windows executable which used to get run out of a shell script
(Cygwin bash) and is now being run with subprocess.Popen(). The windows
app is misbehaving. To make a long story short, the guy who wrote the code
in question says,
> it's all based on the return values of the WinAPI calls GetACP and GetOEMCP
> [...] so maybe Python is doing something like setting the active code page
> and OEM code page prior to the point when they "exec" stuff?
Does Python do these things? I'm using Python 2.5.1.
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