encoding declaration to the top of your source file if you use encoded
literal strings in your code
Any tips for how to set the encoding in IDLE? printing the Unicode
strings works -- trying to repr() the variable chokes with a
UnicodeDecodeError, and trying to enter the literals inside IDLE just
gets me '?' characters instead.
(this is Python 2.5 + IDLE installed from the Python-2.5.msi on
python.org)
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Rami Chowdhury
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On Aug 21, 2009, at 22:53 , Stefan Behnel wrote:
Rami Chowdhury wrote:
I am using primarily UTF-8 based strings, like Hindi or Bengali.
Can I
use Python to help me in this regard?
I can say from experience that Python on Windows (at least, Python
2.5
on 32-bit Vista) works perfectly well with UTF-8 files containing
Bangla. I have had trouble with working with the data in IDLE,
however,
which seems to prefer ASCII by default.
Defaults almost never work for encodings. You have to be explicit:
add an
encoding declaration to the top of your source file if you use encoded
literal strings in your code; use the codecs module with a suitable
encoding to read encoded text files, and use an XML parser when
reading XML.
Stefan
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