Re: [Jython-users] stream munging

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[me]

>Naturally [utf-8 and utf-16-be] are totally useless ways of storing 
>a eurosign on my harddisc. 

[dman]

>Why?  If all (relevant) programs read the data as UTF-8 (or UTF-16-be)
>then they would all see the same character.

True. If that ever happen, we can all reap the benefits.

>| So is latin-1 btw:
>| 
>| >>> u"\u20ac".encode("latin1")
>| Traceback (most recent call last):
>|   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>| UnicodeError: Latin-1 encoding error: ordinal not in range(256)
>
>Latin1 doesn't have a eurosign, does it?

No.

>| The only true and sane encoding to use for windows machines in euroland
>| is cp1252:
>| 
>| >>> u"\u20ac".encode("cp1252")
>| '\x80'
>
>I don't see how that is better than the above values, except that is
>is likely all other windows programs use cp1252 as well, and thus they
>can understand it.

Exactly.

regards,
finn