Re: Unicode confusion

2008-07-15 Thread Mark Tolonen
"Jerry Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Tim Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if I say units=unicode("°"). I get UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) If I try x=unico

Re: Unicode confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Jerry Hill
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Tim Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if I say units=unicode("°"). I get > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0: > ordinal not in range(128) > > If I try x=unicode.decode(x,'utf-8'). I get > TypeError: descriptor 'decode' requires

Unicode confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Tim Cook
Hi All, I'm not clear on how to use the unicode module. I need to be able to use certain characters such as the degree symbol and the mu symbol, i.e.: units = <"°"> if I say units=unicode("°")