[Python-Dev] Re: Source encoding doubt (original) (raw)

Gustavo Niemeyer niemeyer at conectiva.com
Sun Feb 15 20:11:48 EST 2004


I'm wondering what I misunderstood in PEP263. In the following example, shouldn't it work correctly, showing 'áéíóú', as far as my terminal accepts ISO-8859-1?

#!/usr/bin/python # -- coding: utf-8 -- s1 = "\xc3\xa1\xc3\xa9\xc3\xad\xc3\xb3\xc3\xba" s2 = u"\xc3\xa1\xc3\xa9\xc3\xad\xc3\xb3\xc3\xba" print s1.encode('iso-8859-1') print s2.encode('iso-8859-1')

Argh.. ok, understood. I need some sleep. These strings are not unicode, but escapings of unicode strings.

-- Gustavo Niemeyer http://niemeyer.net



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