Tomoki Imai added the comment: Sorry.I forgot to note my environment.
I'm using Arch Linux. $ uname -a Linux manaka 3.8.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 13 09:01:47 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux And python version is here. $ python --version Python 2.7.4 IDLE's version is same, 2.7.4 downloaded from following link. http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.4/ In IDLE,I repeated original author's attempts. Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 6 2013, 19:20:36) [GCC 4.8.0] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> c = u'€' >>> ord(c) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module> ord(c) TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 3 found >>> c.encode('utf-8') '\xc3\xa2\xc2\x82\xc2\xac' >>> c u'\xe2\x82\xac' >>> print c ⬠>>> c = u'\u20ac' >>> ord(c) 8364 >>> c.encode('utf-8') '\xe2\x82\xac' >>> c u'\u20ac' >>> print c € >>> I have a problem.But it is different from original. After my fix. Python 2.7.4 (default, Apr 6 2013, 19:20:36) [GCC 4.8.0] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> c = u'€' >>> ord(c) 8364 >>> c.encode('utf-8') '\xe2\x82\xac' >>> c u'\u20ac' >>> print c € >>> It works. Using unicode escape is one solution. But, we Japanese can type u'こんにちは' just in 10 or 5 key types. And other people who use unicode literals for their language have same situation. Why IDLE users (probably beginner) use such workaround ? Of cource, using Python3 is best way. All beginner should start from Python3 now. But, there are people including me who have to use python2 because of libraries . ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17348> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
