[Tutor] special character ( ñ )

[Danny Yoo]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Michael Lange wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:56:17 -0500 (EST)
> clickron at webtv.net (Ron A) wrote:
>
> > I have python 2.2.2.  Is there an easy way to type =F1 (n with tilde) o=
r
> > other special characters?.
> >
> I am afraid that I'm not an encoding expert, but I guess you have the sam=
e problems
> as I have with german special characters.
> In this case it depends on *where* you want to print it:
> In IDLE(python 2.2.3):
>
> >>> print '=E4'
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)


Hello!


It sounds like you're trying to use ISO-8859-1 encoding to display
accented characters on your system.


If your terminal supports it, then you can use:

    ftp://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT

to find out the right hexadecimal constants.  For example, the tilde 'n'
maps to the entry:

"""
0xF1=090x00F1=09#=09LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
"""


So if your terminal display natively supports ISO-8859-1, then something
like:

###
print '\xf1'
###

should do the trick.



However, if you're using a terminal that natively supports a different
encoding system, then you need to do something slightly different.
Apple's Terminal application, for example, natively uses UTF8.


So you might need to do something like:

###
print '\xf1'.decode('iso8859-1').encode('utf8')
###

to see a tilde 'n' on MacOSX's Terminal.




> If you just suffer from IDLE's limitations try idlefork :
>
> < http://idlefork.sourceforge.net >
>
> It's IDLE with a few extra features; as far as I know it replaces the
> "original" IDLE since python 2.3 .


I believe IDLE supports Unicode now, so try the second snippet example and
see if you get that tilde 'n' from there.



Good luck to you!