[Pythonmac-SIG] Unicode

[Stuart Bishop]

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On 21/03/2004, at 2:28 AM, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I can't get python 2.3 to work with unicode strings. For instance,
>
> print u"El\xE9phant"
>
> results in
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\ue9' in 
> position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
> >>>
>
> any help would be much appreciated.

You can't output a Unicode string without encoding it.

print u'El\xE9phant'.encode('utf8')

Replace utf8 with the character set your terminal window is
configured to use (Cmd-I and select 'display'). I'd suggest
setting this to utf8 as this can encode all Unicode strings, unlike
other common ones like latin-1, macroman or cp1252.

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Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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