Re: [Docutils-users] Re: found a UnicodeDecodeError in a very simple rst file

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[David Goodger]

>What I'd like to know is, is there a reliable way to *know* (not
>guess) the encoding of sys.argv?  IOW, a way to know the shell's
>encoding.

Not reliably.  One may have filenames with different encodings in the=20
same directory.  The shell does not have an encoding per se.

However, the LANGUAGE, LANG, LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE environment variables=20
can hint about user's preferences.  But this is no guarantee that file=20
names comply with this preference.  Maybe this could be used short of=20
knowing better, given a program expects the guess to be sometimes wrong.

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Fran=E7ois Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca