On Oct 12, 1:53 pm, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> s = 'A\xcc\x88' #capital A with umlaut
> print s #displays capital A with umlaut
>
> s = raw_input('Enter: ') #A\xcc\x88
> print s #displays A\xcc\x88
>
> print len(input) #9
>
> It looks like every character of the string I enter in utf-8 is being
> interpreted literally as 9 separate characters rather than one
> character. How do I enter a capital A with an umlaut so that python
> treats it as one character?
I don't know. This works for me:
>>> x = raw_input('Enter: ')
Enter: รค
>>> len(x)
1
>>>
I'm using Python 2.4 with Default Source Encoding set to None on
Windows XP SP2.
Mike
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