Characters in Python

[Jan Sundström]

jansun at home.se (Jan Sundström) wrote in message news:<aaf09156.0306050423.21b45f6 at posting.google.com>...


>    >>> str = 'åäö'
>    UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

I should have mentioned that I tried the unicode approach too but
it didn't work. This is what I get:

    Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14 2002, 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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    >>> theStr = u"Åäö"
    UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
    >>>