[wxPython-users] Re: Re: OT Unicode, Locales and Python (for a wxPy app)

[Werner F. Bruhin]

Hi Donn,

Donn Ingle wrote:
> Werner,
> Thanks for the setdefaultencoding idea!
>
> BTW:
>   
>>     sys.setdefaultencoding('iso-8859-1')
>>     del sys.setdefaultencoding
>>     
> Why do you have that del ?
>   
Frankly, I can't remember.  I must have thought if this is the normal 
behaviour of Python and as I do it this way instead of using 
sitecustomize.py I should go and delete it.

I can not remember how I found out about this, but here some links:
http://blog.ianbicking.org/illusive-setdefaultencoding.html
http://www.diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html

Werner