[Tutor] unicode help

[Marilyn Davis]

Thank you, Dave, for looking at my problem, and for correcting me on my
top posting.

See below:

On Wed, November 14, 2012 12:34 pm, Dave Angel wrote:

> On 11/14/2012 03:10 PM, Marilyn Davis wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Last year, I was helped so that this ran nicely on my 2.6:
>>
>>
>> #! /usr/bin/env python
>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>> # necessary for python not to complain about "¥"
>>
>>
>> symbol = unichr(165) print unicode(symbol)
>>
>> --- end of code ---
>>
>>
>> But, now on my 2.7, and on 2.6 when I tried reinstalling it, I get:
>>
>>
>> bash-3.2$ ./uni_test.py ./uni_test.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "./uni_test.py", line 6, in <module>
>> print unicode(symbol) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
>> character u'\xa5' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) bash-3.2$
>>
>> Can anyone please help?  It says 'ascii' codec?  Shouldn't it be seeing
>>  'utf-8'?
>>
>>
>> I can't imagine it matters but I'm on an imac now and before I was on
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>
>> Marilyn Davis
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> You top-posted your message.  If you need to quote something, please put
> your new text after what you're quoting.
>
> Try the following in your 2.7 interpreter:
>
>
>>>> import sys print sys.stdout.encoding
> UTF-8
>
>
> If you don't see UTF-8, then there's a discrepancy between what you
> think the terminal is doing, and what Python thinks.

You're right, I get this:

bash-3.2$ python
Python 2.7.3 (v2.7.3:70274d53c1dd, Apr  9 2012, 20:52:43)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
import sys
>>> print sys.stdout.encoding
print sys.stdout.encoding
US-ASCII
>>>


>
> Somebody familiar with the Mac might be able to tell you how to fix it
> right, but you could try sys.stdout.encoding = "UTF-8"
>
> and see if it changes your symptoms.

and, your good idea didn't work:

>>> sys.stdout.encoding="UTF-8"
sys.stdout.encoding="UTF-8"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: readonly attribute
>>>

Goodness!  I didn't expect it to be a Mac thing.

So, on a Windows machine, running Python 2.6.6, sys.stdout.encoding is
'cp1252', yet the code runs fine.

On Ubuntu with 2.7, it's 'UTF-8' and  it runs just fine.

I find this most mysterious.

Thank you for any help to get it running on my Mac.

Marilyn





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