Comments on: Django’s dev server and UTF-8

By: jonn3

jonn3 — Thu, 19 May 2011 23:01:04 +0000

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By: Wolfram

Wolfram — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:07:05 +0000

But we Germans might have stuff like Umlauts, etc
ASCII just doesn’t cover it all

By: Niran

Niran — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:56:08 +0000

If you ever write Python code that you intend to distribute to other people, or even other servers you control that haven’t been set up like yours has, you can’t write code that assumes that UTF-8 is the default encoding. From what I’ve read, the best option is to stick with the default (ASCII) so you know your code will work everywhere without needing to tweak anything.

By: ephemient

ephemient — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:29:45 +0000

Ah, right. I used to have a Mac OS X 10.3 machine, and I remember being annoyed at LANG/LC_* environment variables not being set by default. It doesn’t matter to me anymore, since I upgraded the OS to Linux instead of 10.4, but it’s nice to know that they fixed that.

By: Wolfram

Wolfram — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:56:37 +0000

Good to know. So it seems before Leopard the default was not set to utf-8. (I dont remember at least having unset it :-))

By: Chris Ryland

Chris Ryland — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:01:05 +0000

Well, at least on Leopard, LANG=en_US.UTF-8 by default. (That’s what my shell is showing, and I know I never set it anywhere.)

By: Wolfram

Wolfram — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:53:27 +0000

I got a Mac, thats the diff.

By: ephemient

ephemient — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:56:31 +0000

‘LANG=utf-8′ is not a valid system locale.
Choose from the output of `locale -a`; en_US.UTF-8 is a reasonable choice.
What distro are you using? Both Fedora and Ubuntu set globally this by default.