On 9/11/05, Victor STINNER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I found a bug in Python interactive command line (program python alone: > looks to be code.interact() function in code.py). With UTF-8 locale, the > command << u"é" >> returns << u'\xc3\xa9' >> and not << u'\xE9' >>. > Remember: the french e with acute is Unicode 233 (0xE9), encoded \xC3 > \xA9 in UTF-8.
Which version of python do you use? From 2.4, the interactive mode respects locale as a source code encoding and it falls back to latin-1 when decoding fails. Python 2.4.1 (#2, Jul 31 2005, 04:45:53) [GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728] on freebsd5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> u"é" u'\xe9' Hye-Shik _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
