Python strings outside the 128 range

[Gerhard Fiedler]

On 2006-07-13 12:04:58, Richard Brodie wrote:

>>  s = "é"
>>  print s

>> Is there a standard way to do this?
> 
> Use Unicode strings, with an explicit encoding.  Say no to ISO-8859-1 centrism.
> See: http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode particularly the
> "Unicode Literals in Python Source Code" section.

So ...

  # coding: utf-8
  s = u'é'
  print s

(Of course stored with an editor that writes the file in utf-8 encoding.)

Is this the proper way?

Will print take care of encoding translation according to the encoding used
in the target console?

Thanks,
Gerhard