[Tutor] character format

jfouhy@paradise.net.nz jfouhy at paradise.net.nz
Thu May 12 04:00:00 CEST 2005


Quoting Max Noel <maxnoel_fr at yahoo.fr>:

>  You mean é? Oh, it is perfectly printable. It's even on my 
> keyboard (as unshifted 2), along with è, ç, à and ù. Ah, American 
> cultural assumption... ^^

I was waiting for someone to call me on that ...

As was pointed out, I'm not American.  I guess the problem stems from an
American cultural assumption, though, in that Americans (I think) developed the
ASCII character set without any thought for other languages.

Will a standard xterm display chr(130) as é in linux for you, Max?  Or under Mac
OS X?

Anyway, in Python3000 all strings will be unicode, so it won't matter then :-)

-- 
John.


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