Unicode
Duncan Booth
duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Fri Mar 15 07:02:49 EDT 2013
Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
><output>
> æm
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "x.py", line 7, in <module>
> print(b)
> File "C:\Python33-64\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 19, in encode
> return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u03bc' in
> position 0: character maps to <undefined>
></output>
>
> Using (german) windows, command prompt, codepage 850.
>
> The same happens with Python 2.7. What am I doing wrong?
>
They are different characters:
>>> repr(a)
"u'\\xb5m'"
>>> repr(b)
"u'\\u03bcm'"
a contains unicode MICRO SIGN, b contains GREEK SMALL LETTER MU
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Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com
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