On 10 jan, 13:28, jmfauth <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: Addendum, Python console ("dos box")
D:\>c:\python32\python.exe Python 3.2.2 (default, Sep 4 2011, 09:51:08) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> '\u5de5'.encode('utf-8') b'\xe5\xb7\xa5' >>> '\u5de5'.encode('mbcs') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'mbcs' codec can't encode characters in position 0--1: inval id character >>> ^Z D:\>c:\python27\python.exe Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> u'\u5de5'.encode('utf-8') '\xe5\xb7\xa5' >>> u'\u5de5'.encode('mbcs') '?' >>> ^Z D:\> jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list