I thought I understand unicode (somewhat, at least), but this seems
not to be the case.
I expected the following code to print 'µm' two times to the console:
<code>
# -*- coding: cp850 -*-
a = u"µm"
b = u"\u03bcm"
print(a)
print(b)
</code>
But what I get is this:
<output>
µm
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "x.py", line 7, in <module>
print(b)
File "C:\Python33-64\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 19, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u03bc' in
position 0: character maps to <undefined>
</output>
Using (german) windows, command prompt, codepage 850.
The same happens with Python 2.7. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Thomas
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