Revision: 4459 Author: wikipedian Date: 2007-10-17 12:30:51 +0000 (Wed, 17 Oct 2007)

Log Message: ----------- console_encoding can be autodetected

Modified Paths: -------------- trunk/pywikipedia/config.py

Modified: trunk/pywikipedia/config.py =================================================================== --- trunk/pywikipedia/config.py 2007-10-17 12:25:57 UTC (rev 4458) +++ trunk/pywikipedia/config.py 2007-10-17 12:30:51 UTC (rev 4459) @@ -86,9 +86,10 @@ # The encoding that's used in the user's console, i.e. how strings are encoded # when they are read by raw_input(). On Windows systems' DOS box, this should # be 'cp850' ('cp437' for older versions). Linux users might try 'iso-8859-1' -# or 'utf-8'. If this variable is set to None, the default is 'cp850' on -# windows, and iso-8859-1 on other systems -console_encoding = None +# or 'utf-8'. +# This default code should work fine, so you don't have to think about it. +# TODO: consider getting rid of this config variable. +console_encoding = __sys.stdout.encoding

# The encoding in which textfiles are stored, which contain lists of page titles. textfile_encoding = 'utf-8' @@ -452,13 +453,6 @@ else: print "WARNING: Configuration variable %r is defined but unknown. Misspelled?"%_key

-# Fix up default console_encoding -if console_encoding == None: - if __sys.platform=='win32': - console_encoding = 'cp850' - else: - console_encoding = 'iso-8859-1' - # Save base_dir for use by other modules base_dir = _base_dir #