How do I display unicode value stored in a string variable using ord()

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Le dimanche 19 août 2012 19:48:06 UTC+2, Paul Rubin a écrit :
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> But they are not ascii pages, they are (as stated) MOSTLY ascii.
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> E.g. the characters are 99% ascii but 1% non-ascii, so 393 chooses
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> a much more memory-expensive encoding than UTF-8.
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Imagine an us banking application, everything in ascii,
except ... the € currency symbole, code point 0x20ac.

Well, it seems some software producers know what they
are doing.

>>> '€'.encode('cp1252')
b'\x80'
>>> '€'.encode('mac-roman')
b'\xdb'
>>> '€'.encode('iso-8859-1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<eta last command>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' 
in position 0: ordinal not in range(256)

jmf