Hello,
I was directed to send the following query to this email address.
I am using Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Dec 16 2010, 14:12:43) on mac OS
1.5.
How does one set up the character manipulation in python to avoid
mangling foreign-language characters (i.e., French accents, German
umlauts, etc.)?
For example, I have a text file example.txt. The unix command cat
displays the contents as the single line:
São Paulo
However, if I read this file in a python script and then write it back
out character by character using the python script
#!/usr/bin/python
input=open("example.txt","r")
output=open("out.txt","w")
for line in input:
for i in range (len (line)):
output.write ("%s\n" % line[i])
then the characters in the file are given as
S
?
?
o
P
a
u
l
o
Why does python does not make use of the character codes that are used
by the Mac OS? Is there a way to tell python to recognize the OS
character set?
Many thanks, -- Joe
Joseph Grcar
6059 Castlebrook Drive
Castro Valley, CA 94552 USA
email jfgr...@comcast.net
phone 1-510-581-1353
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