Using more than 7 bit ASCII on windows.

[Alex Martelli]

"Mark Hammond" <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote in message
news:39FCB40B.6090509 at ActiveState.com...
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> Please try applying this, and let me know if it works.  If I use the
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> Which is the same as what I get for Python.exe...

Here is the behavior I observe.  Pythonwin #135 with your
fixes from your website plus the one you suggest here (this
is the Italian word "cioé" -- last letter being e-acute):


>>> a='cioé'
>>> a
'cio\351'
>>> print a
cioé
>>> unicode(a,'mbcs')
u'cio\351'
>>> for i in a:
...  print ord(i)
...
99
105
111
233
>>>


In Python 2.0's python.exe running in a 'Command Prompt'
"dos-box":

>>> a='cioé'
>>> a
'cio\202'
>>> print a
cioé
>>> unicode(a,'mbcs')
u'cio\u201A'
>>> for i in a:
...     print ord(i)
...
99
105
111
130
>>>


Not sure what's going on here...?  Perhaps an 'OEM codepage'
in the dos-box versus another in PythonWin...?


Alex