In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Filipe wrote:
> The error I'm getting is beeing thrown when I print the value to the
> console. If I just convert it to unicode all seems ok (except for not
> beeing able to show it in the console, that is... :).
>
> For example, when I try this:
> print unicode("Fran\xd8a", "iso-8859-1")
>
> I get the error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "a.py", line 1, in ?
> print unicode("Fran\xd8a", "iso-8859-1")
> File "c:\Program Files\Python24\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 18, in
> encode
> return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xd8' in
> position 4
> : character maps to <undefined>
The `unicode()` call doesn't fail here but the ``print`` because printing
unicode strings means they have to be encoded into a byte string again.
And whatever encoding the target of the print (your console) uses, it
does not contain the unicode character u'\xd8'. From the traceback it
seems your terminal uses `cp437` as encoding.
As you can see here: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/CP437 there's no Ø
in that character set.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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