[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Chris> So how to I get Python to convert to utf-8 with a print
> Chris> statement, instead of ascii?
>
> The print statement can't do it directly, but you can encode Unicode objects
> using different charsets then print the result. Try this:
> >>> print unicode("\xef", "latin-1").encode("utf-8")
> ï
Thanks skip, that works. Do what I'm doing is encoding the unicode
object into a string with the utf-8 encoding. I'm surprised that that
prints! I guess you can print any string, but I figured it would escape
all the non-ascii values, and send that to the terminal.
The question is, will this work on other terminals?? And here is the
answer (from http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/python.html):
"""
To print data reliably, you must know the encoding that this display
program expects.
...
The Windows console still emulates CP437. So this print statement will
work, on Windows, under a console window.
# Windows console mode only
>>> s = u'\N{POUND SIGN}'
>>> print s.encode('cp-437')
£
Several SSH clients display data using the Latin-1 character set;
Tkinter assumes UTF-8, when 8-bit strings are passed into it. So in
general it is not possible to determine what encoding to use with print.
"""
I suppose what I would like is if I could change the default encoding
that str() uses -- or at least change it to "replace" or "ignore" mode.
Boy, I'm looking forward to all-unicode, all the time.
Thanks,
-Chris
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