Sébastien Boisgérault schrieb: > Hi, > > Could anyone explain me how the python string "é" is mapped to > the binary code "\xe9" in my python interpreter ? > > "é" is not present in the 7-bit ASCII table that is the default > encoding, right ? So is the mapping "é" -> "\xe9" portable ? > (site-)configuration dependent ? Can anyone have something > different of "é" when 'print "\xe9"' is executed ? If the process > is config-dependent, what kind of config info is used ?
The default encoding has nothing to do with this. "\xe9" is just a byte. You can write it into a file (which the terminal is basically), and no default encoding whatsoever in the mix. The default-encoding comes into play when you write unicode(!) strings to a file. Then the unicode string is converted to a byte string using the default-eocoding. Which will fail miserably if the default encoding is ascii (as it is supposed to be) and your unicode string contains any "funny" characters. But even if you encode the unicode string explicitely with an encoding like latin1 or utf-8, the resulting byte strings will just be written to the file. And it is a totally different question (and actually not controllable by you/python) if the terminal will interpret the bytes correct or not. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
