> > I never dreamed that you could actually find out the name of the
> > character set given the locale!
>
> never underestimate the malbot.
>
> (btw, this magic now works on windows too! ;-)
>
> >>> import locale
> >>> print locale.getdefaultlocale()
> ('sv_SE', 'cp1252')
That seems actually pretty useful for explicit conversions!
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://dinsdale.python.org/~guido/)