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Re: Bug#127405: latest python2.1-xml breaks boot-floppies build system.



On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:03:53PM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> Mikhail Sobolev <mss@transas.com> writes:
> 
> > JFYI, engine is a wrapper over iconv interface.  When all this was started, the
> > latest version of python was 1.5.2, and there was no way to work with iconv.
> 
>   But python 2.1 neither provide a way to access iconv, IIRC.
Well, it does have something like

    unicode (string, charset)

and

    <unicodestring>.encode (charset)

which seems to be enough for the tasks of bott-floppies.

--
Misha



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