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lets start a python rant. I love to hate this language. :-) Am Mo den 14. Feb 2011 um 14:14 schrieb Jakub Wilk: > >$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"' > ><unicode pound sign> [...] > >$ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u"\u00a3"' | cat > >Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > >UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in > >position 0: ordinal not in range(128) > > This is the expected behaviour. Incidentally, it has nothing to do > with UTF-8. You'll get the same result if you use a locale with a > legacy encoding. I see. It is funny to see python lovers to blame other for the bugs in the language. ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";' ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";' | cat Both gives the same result, a '£' sign as expected. > * Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, 2011-02-14, 12:42: > >Excellent, I look forward to the removal of python. I always > >hated that language anyway. I hate them more. :-) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.de> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBTVkwIJ+OKpjRpO3lAQr9qAf+I4UXXNKso2hhr6BEjgn/o0IOpbI6/jhe YwSf5rysUlb924NvtdOc1VzLoOff/uUDXOpW0VICSJMZRfVLZvVvdwaysa+SJj/f 0UL0CnuHogtan5uV627JFQRI5/VpQ9LXRc7w6w0+Eh8d7Pm/FJYomI4fuGAM0jPo n1mFCeHSP2PiSIJ85cKWCqxsDkC4EDrPvrqol2ZJfuW1bVqqViGWMIrQ8RXzQ8JD eSBHY0qjOCoMz1W46C4ruk3SVkX6FGe/V9U6XUG9kcAYlfpMyfeHDQ207P1tuEUH dmD9gFA8ZpUgxHSZY43ONBnJlFynubPv7bmWoic7sez6V8zab6TFqg== =KrXl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110214133736.gb6...@ikki.ethgen.ch