On Aug 24, 12:19 pm, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > 7stud wrote: > > python 3.1 won't let me > > explicitly encode my unicode string > > Sure it does. But encoding a non-ASCII string to ASCII will necessarily fail. >
As you should be able to see in the python 3.1 example I posted, I did not encode the string using the ascii codec. I encoded it with the utf-8 codec, and unfortunately in python 3.1 that creates a "bytes string", and print()'ing a bytes string does not produce human readable text. > > and python 3.1 implicitly does > > the encoding with the wrong codec. > > That's not a Python problem, though. Your terminal is configured for > US-ASCII, so you can't output anything but US-ASCII characters. > My terminal is configured for utf-8, and from the output of the python 2.6 example I posted, it should be apparent that my terminal is capable of rendering the euro character. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
