[spe.pycs.net] Re: Unicode Encoding?

[Chris Spencer]

Chris Spencer wrote:
> www.stani.be wrote:
> 
>> That's what I started to think of implementing: a drop
>> down list in the preferences dialog box. Which list
>> should it consist of? What are common encoding
>> formats? Is there somewhere a list on the internet?
>> Suggestions are welcome. 
> 
> 
> Well, you should probably only worry about what's listed at:
> http://docs.python.org/lib/node127.html
> since those are the encodings Python supports by default. There might be 
> more, but that's a good place to start.
> 
>> What I also could do is that spe changes the default
>> encoding to the value of the preference box and
>> restore the previous value when spe exits.
>>
>>
>>> or let the SPE auto-detect the encoding for each file.
>>
>>
>> Is there any python library/algorithm for this. It
>> seems a bit risky to me.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure. Auto-detecting the encoding from scratch is practically 
> impossible, but what Firefox does is allow you to narrow the field to 
> say, "Auto-detect Japanese", and then it tries to determine which of the 
> 3 or 4 Japanese encodings should be used. Of course, this isn't 
> absolutely necessary. Just allowing the user to select the encoding 
> manually should be fine for most cases.

Also, I just checked and some Unicode may not appear correctly in the 
shell panel if the font doesn't support the characters. In this case, 
the current font cannot display Asian characters. Is it possible to 
allow the shell's font to be changed?