[wingide-users] yet another unicode puzzle

[Charles Hartman]

In my continuing struggle with Unicode (in particular the Unicode build 
of wxPython 2.5.4.1, which I'm using with Python 2.4.1 on OS 10.3), 
I've discovered this odd bit, which I'll bet has a simple explanation: 
If I call wx.GetDefaultPyEncoding(), which returns the string encoding 
for the system at the moment, it returns 'mac-roman' while I'm in the 
WingIDE, but when I build a standalone app using py2app, it returns 
'utf-8'. (On Windows it returns 'cpsomethingorother'.) This rings a 
bell, but I can't place why the difference occurs.

Charles Hartman