hm I guess I found an answer myself
on windows, the default encoding is not 'utf8'
thus, if I use
encoding = locale.getlocale()[1]
t.decode(encoding)
instead of
t.decode('utf8')
it works
On 1/31/07, frank h. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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