On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Leon Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wish to make a dictionary of english to czech words.  I thought I would
> first see if python will print a czech character.  I used the example in the
> tutorial (it uses a euro symbol, and a different iso character set so I
> changed mine to include a character set that includes eastern european
> characters).  My results follow:
>
>>>> # -*- coding: iso_8859-2 -*-
>>>> cz_c = u"č"
> Unsupported characters in input

The coding declaration only affects the encoding of program files, not
the interactive interpreter.

I have some notes here hthat may help:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/stories/00018.html

Try
  cz_c = "č".decode(sys.stdin.encoding)

Kent
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