Feb. 15, 2004
4:47 p.m.
Hello! I'm wondering what I misunderstood in PEP263. In the following example, shouldn't it work correctly, showing 'áéíóú', as far as my terminal accepts ISO-8859-1? #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- s1 = "\xc3\xa1\xc3\xa9\xc3\xad\xc3\xb3\xc3\xba" s2 = u"\xc3\xa1\xc3\xa9\xc3\xad\xc3\xb3\xc3\xba" print s1.encode('iso-8859-1') print s2.encode('iso-8859-1') -- Gustavo Niemeyer http://niemeyer.net