>
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering about the following behaviour of str() with strings
> containing non-ASCII characters:
>
> str(u'foo') returns 'foo' as expected.
>
> str('lää') returns 'lää' as expected.
>
> str(u'lää') raises UnicodeEncodeError
>
This does not work, because you need an encoder to convert
unicode to str. str() does not know a priori which encoder
to use. There are many ways to encode a unicode string
to a classic byte-stream based string.
you have to procede as follows:
>>> s=u"äää"
>>> print s.encode("latin-1")
äää
try "utf-8" and "utf-16" instead of "latin-1"
Greetings, Uwe.
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