Duncan Webb wrote:
> Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> Jason Tackaberry wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 16:50 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>>>> Unicode in Python sucks!
>>> I wouldn't say it sucks.  It has some warts, but overall I think it's
>>> not bad.  Why do you think it sucks?
>> unicode('ö') always raises an UnicodeDecodeError because I can't set
>> the default encoding, it is always ascii.
> 
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> print unicode('ö')
> 
> This doesn't but prints: ö
> 
> Which is still bad.

I'd changed site.py encoding to latin1

python test.py > file
cat file
ö

When it's ascii it gives UnicodeDecodeError

Duncan


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