[Tutor] local daynames in unicode

[frank h.]

Hello all,
using python 2.4.4, I have the following session on Mac OS X:

import datetime, locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'se_SE')
t=datetime.date(2007,01,29).strftime("%A")
t
'M?\xa5ndag'
type(t)
<type 'str'>
t.decode('utf8')
u'M\xe5ndag'

fantastic! I just got the unicode version of the swedish name for "Monday"

now I want to do the same on my PC (also python 2.4.4)

import datetime, locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'swedish')
t=datetime.date(2007,01,29).strftime("%A")
t
'm\xa5ndag'
type(t)
<type 'str'>
t.decode('utf8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "c:\Python24\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3: invalid
data

...ups?!?! how can that be? what am I doing wrong? I just don't get it
thanks for any insight you might have!!
-frank
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