Ed Singleton wrote: > I've been having unicode problems in python on Mac OS 10.4. > > I googled for it and found a good page in Dive Into Python that I > thought might help > (http://www.diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html). > > I tried following the instructions and set my default encoding using a > sitecustomize.py, but got the following: > > >>>> import sys >>>> sys.getdefaultencoding() >>>> > 'utf-8' > >>>> s = u'La Pe\xf1a' >>>> print s >>>> > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in > position 5: ordinal not in range(128) > > > As I understand it, that should work. I tried using different > character sets (like latin-1, etc), but none of them work. > I'm not sure Dive into Python is correct. Here is what I get on Windows: In [1]: s = u'La Pe\xf1a'
In [2]: print s La Peña In [3]: import sys In [4]: sys.getdefaultencoding() Out[4]: 'ascii' In [5]: sys.stdout.encoding Out[5]: 'cp437' I think print converts to the encoding of sys.stdout, not the default encoding. What is the value of sys.stdout.encoding on your machine? Kent > The main problem I am having is in getting python not to give an > error when it encounters a sterling currency sign (£, pound sign here > in UK), which I suspect might be some wider problem on the mac as when > I type that character in the terminal it shows a # (but in Python it > shows a £). Where is the pound sign coming from? What encoding is it in? What do you mean, in Python it shows £? You said Python gives an error...Fixing your first problem may not help this one without a bit more digging... (BTW in the US a # is sometimes called a 'pound sign', maybe the computer is trying to translate for you ;) - though it is for pound weight, not pound sterling.) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
