[Tutor] local daynames in unicode

[frank h.]

hm I guess I found an answer myself

on windows, the default encoding is not 'utf8'
thus, if I use

encoding = locale.getlocale()[1]
t.decode(encoding)

instead of

t.decode('utf8')

it works

On 1/31/07, frank h. <frank.hoffsummer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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