Umlauts revisited: Now they prevent program from running

[Dieter Maurer]

"Franz GEIGER" <fgeiger at datec.at> writes on Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:11:20 +0100:
> I pull data out of an Excel sheet using DAO. There are field values
> containing text strings. Everything works fine until a text reads e.g.
> "Stück".
> 
> After stopping before the exception
> 
> "UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)"
> 
> occurs I display the field in the interactive window of PythonWin
> (ActiveState 2.0 on NT4) by simply typing "fld.Value".
> 
> It displays u'St\374ck'.
> 
> Conversion into a Python string by applying print or str() yields:
> 
> "Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)"
> 
> Any idea how to overcome this?
Inside your "site.py" you can change the default encoding
with "sys.setDefaultEncoding" to something appropriate for
you.

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Dieter