On Windows i can do like this:
>>> "\x98".encode("ANSI")
b'\x98'
On Linux it throws an error:
>>> "\x98".encode("ANSI")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
LookupError: unknown encoding: ANSI
How can i get b"\x98" from "\x98" on linux?
CPXXXX encodings don't work for me, because \x98 doesnt exist
Regarding this definition of ANSI encoding:
ANSI encoding is a slightly generic term used to refer to the standard code page on a system, usually Windows. It is more properly referred to as Windows-1252 on Western/U.S. systems.
You can try:
"\x98".encode("cp1252")
But, Python doesn’t allow it so, you can use ISO Latin1 instead:
"\x98".encode("iso_8859_1")
# b'\x98'
I'm not sure what you're expecting this to do. U+0098 is an unprintable character. You can try bytes([ord("\x98")]) to do a raw translation.
You can use this:
def get_ansi_cp():
import codecs
import locale
return codecs.lookup(locale.getpreferredencoding()).name
Which at my machine returns cp1252.
