Trouble with unicode

[Charlie Clark]

>Their length?
they look about 3 characters long but are only 1 really, I already have 
experience converting Unix characters over.
> 
>> >>>> from codecs import lookup
>> >>>> toASCII = lookup( 'ascii' )[0]
>> >>>> toASCII( u'123\555' )
>> >>>> toASCII( u'123\555', 'replace' )
>> >('123?', 4)
>> >
>> >>> from codecs import lookup
>> >>> toASCII = lookup ("ascii")[0]
>> >>> toASCII(u"123\555")
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128) 
>> is as far as I get. ... whether there is a bug in the BeOS 
>> version of a 
>> module? I don't think I made a typing mistake.
>
>Oops :-) change 
>toASCII(u"123\555") to 
>toASCII(u"123\555", "replace")

okay it works

>>> toASCII(u"123\555", "replace")
('123?', 4)
>>> text
'\xe4, \xc4, \xf6, \xd6, \xfc, \xdc, \xdf'
>>> toASCII(text, "replace")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

But I'm no closer, am I? I don't quite understand what the codecs module is 
and how it works.

Charlie
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