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Author	electronixtar
Recipients	electronixtar
Date	2008-08-22.14:14:07
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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One of the MOST common scene for Python developers on CJK/Widecharacter is this error: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 0: ordinal not in range (128) Why cann't Python just define ascii to range(256), or alternatively, just use another default encoding that handles 0x00 to 0xff. Sometimes encoding problems in Python are driving me mad. Currently I am using mbcs, but it's only available on Windows.

One of the MOST common scene for Python developers on CJK/Widecharacter 
is this error:

'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 0: ordinal not in range
(128)


Why cann't Python just define ascii to range(256), or alternatively, 
just use another default encoding that handles 0x00 to 0xff. Sometimes 
encoding problems in Python are driving me mad.

Currently I am using mbcs, but it's only available on Windows.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-08-22 14:14:10	electronixtar	set	recipients: + electronixtar
2008-08-22 14:14:10	electronixtar	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2008-08-22 14:14:09	electronixtar	link	issue3648 messages
2008-08-22 14:14:08	electronixtar	create