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? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list