I'm developing a routine that will parse user input. For simplicity, I'm converting the entire input string to upper case. One of the words that will have special meaning for the parser is the word "før", (before in English). However, this word is not recognized. A test in the interactive shell reveals this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] leif $ python Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 21:31:38) [GCC 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 'før'.upper() 'F\xf8R' >>> 'FØR' 'F\xd8R' >>> In Windows, the result is slightly different, but no better: C:\Python23>python ActivePython 2.3.2 Build 232 (ActiveState Corp.) based on Python 2.3.2 (#49, Nov 13 2003, 10:34:54) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 'før'.upper() 'F\x9bR' >>> 'FØR' 'F\x9dR' >>> Is there a way around this problem? My character set in Linux is ISO-8859-1. In Windows 2000 it should be the equivavent Latin-1, though I'm not sure about which character set the command shell is using. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
