Message6947

Author	pekka.klarck
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Date	2012-03-21.05:29:01
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I expected Jython to support at least the same encodings that JVM supports. It turned out I was wrong: $ jython Jython 2.5.2 (Release_2_5_2:7206, Mar 2 2011, 23:12:06) [Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (Sun Microsystems Inc.)] on java1.6.0_21 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from java.nio.charset import Charset >>> for c in sorted(Charset.availableCharsets()): ... print c ... 'x'.encode(c) ... Big5 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 3, in <module> LookupError: unknown encoding 'big5'

I expected Jython to support at least the same encodings that JVM supports. It turned out I was wrong:

$ jython
Jython 2.5.2 (Release_2_5_2:7206, Mar 2 2011, 23:12:06) 
[Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (Sun Microsystems Inc.)] on java1.6.0_21
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from java.nio.charset import Charset     
>>> for c in sorted(Charset.availableCharsets()):
...   print c
...   'x'.encode(c)
... 
Big5
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in <module>
LookupError: unknown encoding 'big5'

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