STINNER Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
If you write "€" in the Python interpreter (Python2), you will get a
*bytes* string encoded in your terminal charset. Example on Linux
(utf-8):
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 23:17:40)
>>> '€'
'\xe2\x82\xac'
Use "u" prefix to get unicode string:
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 23:17:40)
>>> u'€'
u'\u20ac'
If you use unicode, encoding to ISO-8859-1/-15 works correctly.
(Truncated) example with python trunk:
Python 2.6rc2+ (trunk:66680M, Sep 29 2008, 12:03:32)
>>> u'€'.encode('ISO-8859-1')
...
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u20ac'
>>> u'€'.encode('ISO-8859-15')
'\xa4'
In a script (Python code written in a file), use #coding header to
specify your file charset. Or use "\xXX", "\uXXXX" and "\UXXXX"
notations for non-ASCII characters.
Is there somewhere an Unicode Python FAQ? :-)
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nosy: +haypo
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