Hey i have created a program that turns a string into a binary one. But when i began to test the program it turned out that it could not handle some special characters (e.g ÆØÅ). Could someone please help me?
p.s i am a newbie so if you have any comments on the source code please let me know here is the source code: #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: Latin-1 -*- import os, sys import sys def ChooSe(): print print " encrypt " print " quit " print choice = raw_input("What do you need: ") if choice == "encrypt": encrypt() elif choice == "quit": kExit() else: print "Invalid choice" ChooSe() def kExit(): xit = raw_input("Do you really want to quit? ") kY = ('y','Y','yes','yah','yeah') kN = ('n','N','no','nah') if xit in kN: ChooSe() elif xit in kY: print "Goodbye!" print sys.exit() else: print "Invalid choice" ChooSe() def encrypt(): print print " encryption " print secret = raw_input('Text to encrypt: ') code = list(secret) chartobinary = { 'A' : '01000001', 'B' : '01000010', 'C' : '01000011', 'D' : '01000100', 'E' : '01000101', 'F' : '01000110', 'G' : '01000111', 'H' : '01001000', 'I' : '01001001', 'J' : '01001010', 'K' : '01001011', 'L' : '01001100', 'M' : '01001101', 'N' : '01001110', 'O' : '01001111', 'P' : '01010000', 'Q' : '01010001', 'R' : '01010010', 'S' : '01010011', 'T' : '01010100', 'U' : '01010101', 'V' : '01010110', 'W' : '01010111', 'X' : '01011000', 'Y' : '01011001', 'Z' : '01011010', 'a' : '01100001', 'b' : '01100010', 'c' : '01100011', 'd' : '01100100', 'e' : '01100101', 'f' : '01100110', 'g' : '01100111', 'h' : '01101000', 'i' : '01101001', 'j' : '01101010', 'k' : '01101011', 'l' : '01101100', 'm' : '01101101', 'n' : '01101110', 'o' : '01101111', 'p' : '01110000', 'q' : '01110001', 'r' : '01110010', 's' : '01110011', 't' : '01110100', 'u' : '01110101', 'v' : '01110110', 'w' : '01110111', 'x' : '01111000', 'y' : '01111001', 'z' : '01111010', ' ' : '00100000', '!' : '00100001', "\\" : '00100010', '#' : '00100011', '$' : '00100100', '%' : '00100101', '&' : '00100110', "'" : '00100111', '(' : '00101000', ')' : '00101001', '*' : '00101010', '+' : '00101011', ',' : '00101100', '-' : '00101101', '.' : '00101110', '/' : '00101111', ':' : '00111010', ';' : '00111011', '<' : '00111100', '=' : '00111101', '>' : '00111110', '?' : '00111111', '@' : '01000000', '[' : '01011011', ']' : '01011101', '^' : '01011110', '_' : '01011111', '`' : '01100000', '{' : '01111011', '|' : '01111100', '}' : '01111101', '~' : '01111110', '€' : '10000000', '¡' : '10100001', '¢' : '10100010', '£' : '10100011', '¤' : '10100100', '¥' : '10100101', '¦' : '10100110', '§' : '10100111', '¨' : '10101000', '©' : '10101001', 'ª' : '10101010', '«' : '10101011', '¬' : '10101100', '®' : '10101110', '¯' : '10101111', '°' : '10110000', '±' : '10110001', '²' : '10110010', '³' : '10110011', '´' : '10110100', 'µ' : '10110101', '¶' : '10110110', '·' : '10110111', '¸' : '10111000', '¹' : '10111001', 'º' : '10111010', '»' : '10111011', '¼' : '10111100', '½' : '10111101', '¾' : '01111110', '¿' : '10111111', 'À' : '11000000', 'Á' : '11000001', 'Â' : '11000010', 'Ã' : '11000011', 'Ä' : '11000100', 'Å' : '11000101', 'Æ' : '11000110', 'Ç' : '11000111', 'È' : '11001000', 'É' : '11001001', 'Ê' : '11001010', 'Ë' : '11001011', 'Ì' : '11001100', 'Í' : '11001101', 'Î' : '11001110', 'Ï' : '11001111', 'Ð' : '11010000', 'Ñ' : '11010001', 'Ò' : '11010010', 'Ó' : '11010011', 'Ô' : '11010100', 'Õ' : '11010101', 'Ö' : '11010110', '×' : '11010111', 'Ø' : '11011000', 'Ù' : '11011001', 'Ú' : '11011010', 'Û' : '11011011', 'Ü' : '11011100', 'Ý' : '11011101', 'Þ' : '11011110', 'ß' : '11011111', 'à' : '11100000', 'á' : '11100001', 'â' : '11100010', 'ã' : '11100011', 'ä' : '11100100', 'å' : '11100101', 'æ' : '11100110', 'ç' : '11100111', 'è' : '11101000', 'é' : '11101001', 'ê' : '11101010', 'ë' : '11101011', 'ì' : '11101100', 'í' : '11101101', 'î' : '11101110', 'ï' : '11101111', 'ð' : '11110000', 'ñ' : '11110001', 'ò' : '11110010', 'ó' : '11110011', 'ô' : '11110100', 'õ' : '11110101', 'ö' : '11110110', '÷' : '11110111', 'ø' : '11111000', 'ù' : '11111001', 'ú' : '11111010', 'û' : '11111011', 'û' : '11111100', 'ý' : '11111101', 'þ' : '11111110', 'ÿ' : '11111111', '0' : '00110000', '1' : '00110001', '2' : '00110010', '3' : '00110011', '4' : '00110100', '5' : '00110101', '6' : '00110110', '7' : '00110111', '8' : '00111000', '9' : '00111001', } def TransLate(): key = 1 fTransLaTion = chartobinary[code[0]] aTransLaTion = "" while key <= len(code) - 1: TransLaTion = chartobinary[code[key]] key = key + 1 aTransLaTion = aTransLaTion+TransLaTion lTranslation = fTransLaTion+aTransLaTion print lTranslation TransLate() ChooSe() ChooSe() _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor