[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I think this remark is more to the point. In my experience, the general > problem is that python operates with the default encoding "ascii" as in > sys.getdefaultencoding(). It is possible to set the defaultencoding in > sitecustomize.py, with sys.setdefaultencoding('latin1'). I have placed > sitecustomize.py in Lib/site-packages. It is not possible to set the > encoding once python has started. Setting the encoding only works if > you can bind yourself to this one encoding and is therefore no general > fix. > The only reasonable way to work is to get your strings into unicode > (and sometimes back out again). > If for instance you type: > s = "äÄöÖüÜß" and then try > us = unicode(s) you will get a traceback identical to yours.
I missed the beginning of this thread, but why not write s = u"äÄöÖüÜß" Is there ever a reason _not_ to exclusively use the unicode stringtype throughout your Python program? (of course you may need to encode/decode when interfacing with the world outside your program) /johan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list