Hello all, using python 2.4.4, I have the following session on Mac OS X:
import datetime, locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'se_SE') t=datetime.date(2007,01,29).strftime("%A") t 'M?\xa5ndag' type(t) <type 'str'> t.decode('utf8') u'M\xe5ndag' fantastic! I just got the unicode version of the swedish name for "Monday" now I want to do the same on my PC (also python 2.4.4) import datetime, locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'swedish') t=datetime.date(2007,01,29).strftime("%A") t 'm\xa5ndag' type(t) <type 'str'> t.decode('utf8') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "c:\Python24\lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3: invalid data ...ups?!?! how can that be? what am I doing wrong? I just don't get it thanks for any insight you might have!! -frank
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