Hi,
the problem was solved by using
print list[1].encode('iso8859_2')
I still wonder why this works, the book Python Essential Reference (Second Edition)
mentions to use
'iso-8859-1' for latin 1 (western europe)
and equivalently it should be
'iso-8859-2' for latin 1 (eastern europe)
Also the use of the encoding 'unicode-escape' was great help as it shows the actually unicode character number.
Thanks for the tip to use 'ignore' as second parameter, this was new to me.
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Katz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:16 PM
> To: Frey, Peter
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Unicode
>
>
> Actually, you should use
>
> print list[1].encode('latin1', 'ignore')
>
> This will eliminate the exception when a character has no latin1
> equivalent. This is simpler than the other alternatives.
>
> Martin Katz
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > we had a similar problem with Outlook
> > try the following:
> >
> > print list[1].encode('latin1')
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 2:23 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Unicode
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I am new in python.
> > > I found it very usefull, but :
> > > this string came from an ADO recordset and i cant do
> anything with it.
> > >
> > > >>> list[1]
> > > u'SCALA 5.1 Logisztika belf\xf6ld'
> > > >>> print list[1]
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > File "<input>", line 1, in ?
> > > UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> > >
> > > How can I use it with wxPython ?
> > > I can't print it, i can't use it to fill up a TreeCtrl ...
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
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