On 7/30/06, Antonio Cavedoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know much about Vim, but it appears your ö and ä are entered > with an encoding different than UTF-8. Python then tries to decode > your characters thinking they might be valid UTF-8, but they are not, > so it raises the UnicodeDecodeError. > > FYI: ä (LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS) in UTF-8 is \xc3\xa4, > whereas \xe4 is its encoded form in ISO-8859-1/Latin-1 (and > ISO-8859-10/Latin-6 as well, I haven't looked at other encodings).
It's quite possible that this is the case -- in a unix environment, you can use the od command to see the bytewise encoding of the text file. Use something like od -t x1 filename.txt to see the individual bytes in hex. Also, to test pythons unicode handling, try a simple file with nothing but print u"ä" and see how python handles the string. > I googled a bit, and found this page [1] where it says that to set > your Vim to the UTF-8 encoding you have to use the following command > (note the column at the beginning): > > :set encoding=utf-8 The colon at the beginning of the line is to enter command mode in vim, when you are using it interactively. It is not required in a .vimrc file. -- Regards, Ian Clelland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
