Timmie wrote: > I tried your advice yesterday evening. > >> And see if you get a ç. > I see this character. > > from easygui import easygui > raw = unicode("121ø 55' 5.55''", 'utf-8') > => gets a encoding error
Then your source file is not really in UTF-8. BTW you can simply say raw = u"121ø 55' 5.55''" > raw = unicode("121ø 55' 5.55''", 'cp1250') > => this works while coding on windows. > How do I make it work really crossplatform: On both Linux and Windows? Get an editor on Windows that can edit UTF-8 text files and file transfer software that doesn't change the text encoding. Work with UTF-8 exclusively. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor