Questions on XML

[Rami Chowdhury]

> encoding declaration to the top of your source file if you use encoded
> literal strings in your code

Any tips for how to set the encoding in IDLE? printing the Unicode  
strings works -- trying to repr() the variable chokes with a  
UnicodeDecodeError, and trying to enter the literals inside IDLE just  
gets me '?' characters instead.

(this is Python 2.5 + IDLE installed from the Python-2.5.msi on  
python.org)

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Rami Chowdhury
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On Aug 21, 2009, at 22:53 , Stefan Behnel wrote:

> Rami Chowdhury wrote:
>>> I am using primarily UTF-8 based strings, like Hindi or Bengali.  
>>> Can I
>>> use Python to help me in this regard?
>>
>> I can say from experience that Python on Windows (at least, Python  
>> 2.5
>> on 32-bit Vista) works perfectly well with UTF-8 files containing
>> Bangla. I have had trouble with working with the data in IDLE,  
>> however,
>> which seems to prefer ASCII by default.
>
> Defaults almost never work for encodings. You have to be explicit:  
> add an
> encoding declaration to the top of your source file if you use encoded
> literal strings in your code; use the codecs module with a suitable
> encoding to read encoded text files, and use an XML parser when  
> reading XML.
>
> Stefan
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