[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html > > I realize the following: It does not make sense to have a string without > knowing what encoding it uses. There is no such thing as plain text.
Good start! > > Ok. Fine. In Mozilla, by clicking on View, Character Encoding, I find > out that the text in the file I grab from: > > http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/index.html > > is encoded in ISO-8859-1. So I go about changing Python's default > encoding according to: > > http://www.diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html I don't think this is necessary. Did it actually fix anything? Changing the default encoding is not recommended because it makes your scripts non-portable. > BUT the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE character still displays > in IDLE as \xc5 ! I can get the character to display correctly if I type: > > print "\xc5" In many cases IDLE will display the repr() of a string which shows any non-ascii character as a hexidecimal escape. It is actually the correct character. print does not use the repr() so it displays correctly. > which is fine if I am simply going to copy and paste the select element > into my html file. However, I want to be able to dynamically generate > the html form page and have the character in question display correctly > in the web browser. > > The problem, of course, is that if I run my script that creates the > select element in IDLE I continue to see the output: > > <option value='AX'>\xc5land Islands</option> > > Am I doing something wrong ? No, actually you are doing great. This is correct output, it is just not displaying in the form you expect. The data is correct. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
