UnicodeEncodeError in compile

[jmfauth]

On 11 jan, 01:56, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 1/10/2012 8:43 AM, jmfauth wrote:
>
> ...
>
> mbcs encodes according to the current codepage. Only the chinese
> codepage(s) can encode the chinese char. So the unicode error is correct
> and 2.7 has a bug in that it is doing "errors='replace'" when it
> supposedly is doing "errors='strict'". The Py3 fix was done inhttp://bugs.python.org/issue850997
> 2.7 was intentionally left alone because of back-compatibility
> considerations. (None of this addresses the OP's question.)
>
> --

win7, cp1252

Ok. I was not aware of this.

>>> '\N{CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A}'.encode('mbcs')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<eta last command>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'mbcs' codec can't encode characters in position
0--1: invalid character
>>> '\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA}'.encode('mbcs')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<eta last command>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'mbcs' codec can't encode characters in position
0--1: invalid character

jmf