On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Oleg Broytmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:22:37AM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > > I'd like to propose a new environment variable PYTHONSTDOUTENCODING. > > This is meant to solve various problems that people had with Python > > not detecting their terminal encoding correctly; it would override > > any detection that Python would use for determining the encoding of > > stdout (and stdin - but that's less relevant in 2.x). > > Is it to override locale settings in case the user wants a different > encoding? for such cases as redirected stdout, or windows console (which > has an "OEM" encoding that differs from the locale encoding)? > > > Naming contest: it probably would be the longest of the PYTHON* > > variables. I would not want to call it PYTHONENCODING, or > > PYTHONSTDENCODING, though, because people might infer that it > > affects sys.getdefaultencoding(), which it shouldn't. > > PYTHONIOENCODING? > What about PYTHONLANG ? or something that tries to reflect which environment variables are used for this ? (LC_CTYPE -> PYTHONCTYPE ? if the code uses just LC_CTYPE) http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_02 Just for my own knowledge: why it has to be one word ? can't it be PYTHON_LANG ? Tarek > > Oleg. > -- > Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ziade.tarek%40gmail.com > -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/
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