[JDEV] jabber.py problems

[Igor Stroh]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:28:08 +0100
Jacek Konieczny <jajcus at bnet.pl> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:28:35PM +0100, Igor Stroh wrote:
> > > so why shouldn't be the variable ENCODING in xmlstream in "utf-8"
> > > instead of site.encoding?...
> > 
> > it doesn't work this way, don't ask my why :) to switch to utf-8, edit
> > your site.py and change the line that says "encoding = 'ascii'" to
> > "encoding = 'UTF-8'"
> It is not a good thing (one Python hacker told me this, with some
> arguments, that convinced me).
> jabber.py should be fixed, so it uses proper encoding. 

there's no way to do it other than to follow the instructions at
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq04.102.htp

if you have doubts about changing your encoding from ascii to utf-8 you
can still tell python to use the appropriate encoding from your locale
settings as suggested on the page above...

again, this is a known issue, if you think there's a better way to handle
this problem, please send a patch or a solution proposal to jabber.py
mailing list or just post in here, i'll forward the message to the list...

regards,
Igor