string processing question

[Kurt Mueller]

Paul McGuire schrieb:
> --
> Weird. What happens if you change the second print statement to:
> print b.center(6,u"-")
Same behavior.


I have an even more minimal example:


:> python -c 'print unicode("ä", "utf8")'
ä

:> python -c 'print unicode("ä", "utf8")' | cat
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
0-1: ordinal not in range(128)


Just the difference of having piped the output to another program or to
a file.
Maybe we leave the other issue with the different centering for the moment.

My goal is to have my python programs unicode enabled.





TIA
-- 
Kurt Mueller

-- 
Kurt Müller, mu at problemlos.ch