Python Unicode strangeness.

[Martin von Loewis]

"Syver Enstad" <syver at NOSPAMcyberwatcher.com> writes:

> '%s, %s' % ('æøasfd', u'a')
> this throws unicode error.
> 
> Is this by design?

I think so, you should not combine strings with characters > 128 and
Unicode objects: the result should be Unicode, but you can't be
certain in what encoding the string was. To get this to work, do

'%s, %s' % (unicode('æøasfd','latin-1'), u'a')

(if Latin-1 is the encoding that you had intended for that string), or

'%s, %s' % ('æøasfd', u'a'.encode('latin-1'))

Regards,
Martin