[IronPython] Unable to compare two junk character string in Iron Python.Do I need to include any particular encoding.??

[Jan-Philip Gehrcke]

Saurabh,

first of all, you did not provide an error message, but it looks like a
decoding/unicode issue.

Visit:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/368805/python-unicodedecodeerror-am-i-misunderstanding-encode
The first answer should help a lot.

Furthermore, this seems to be good literature on the field:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html

Regarding the application of # -*- coding: coding -*-, read here:
http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/SourceCodeEncoding.html

So, in your case it looks like a good idea to use e.g. UTF-8 as source
encoding. Check the settings of the text editor you are using and set
the source encoding to UTF-8 (if it does not allow this, you should use
another editor). Then, tell (Iron)Python that your source code is
encoded by UTF-8 by putting this into the file header: # -*- coding:
utf-8 -*-.

Cheers,

Jan-Philip


On 04/26/2011 01:51 PM, saurabh rawat wrote:
> 
> Hmm..you mean to say # -*- coding: utf-8-*- like this..will give it a
> try..i have actually but no success or may be I am missing the correct
> way to specify it.
> Thanks and Rgds,
> Saurabh
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> --- On *Tue, 26/4/11, Lukas Cenovsky /<cenovsky at bakalari.cz>/* wrote:
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> 
>     From: Lukas Cenovsky <cenovsky at bakalari.cz>
>     Subject: Re: [IronPython] Unable to compare two junk character
>     string in Iron Python.Do I need to include any particular encoding.??
>     To: "Discussion of IronPython" <users at lists.ironpython.com>
>     Date: Tuesday, 26 April, 2011, 4:46 PM
> 
>     You should use the same encoding as has you special character string.
>     Have you tried using utf-8 instead of ascii?
> 
>     --
>     -- Lukáš
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>     On 26.4.2011 11:56, saurabh rawat wrote:
>>
>>     HI,
>>     I have problem while working with text containing the unknown
>>     characters
>>     I have a method which compare the variable song with "some special
>>     character string"  and return true and false on the match and
>>     mismatch respectively.
>>
>>     example
>>
>>     (0)song = The goodgoddevil robzombie pfjsdfgolsdgâ¯â« á é ú
>>     (1)if song == "The goodgoddevil robzombie pfjsdfgolsdgâ¯â« á é ú"
>>
>>     it exits as soon as it tries to execute the line (1)
>>
>>
>>     I have go-ogled and found that something like this is to be  included
>>     #!/usr/bin/python
>>     # -*- coding: ascii -*-
>>
>>     But still the same behavior, i think some problem with the coding
>>     - encoding standard.
>>     Could plz somebody help.
>>
>>     Rgds,
>>     Saurabh
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