pydoc and latin-1/iso-8859-1/scandinavian letters

[Martin v. Löwis]

> A quick newbie question: Is there any way to get the latin-1 characters
> to show up correctly on the pydoc output? Currently it seems that the
> next letter after the latin-1 character (such as ä) is not displayed.
> For example the text "tämä on testi" will show up as "tääon testi".

That is highly platform dependent. The terminal you are using may not
support
Latin-1, in which case it won't help that the doc strings are in Latin-1.
What
terminal are you using? If you are using Linux: what locale are you using?

Regards,
Martin