problems writing utf8

[Martin v. Loewis]

Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> writes:

> Oh, verdraaid, I see what I did wrong. On my previous computer, which
> has melted down, I had hacked sys so my default encoding was the same
> as that in my locale -- utf-8.
> 
> On my new computer, I just compiled and installed the latest Python,
> and I can only enter source in ASCII and escape sequences.
> 
> Was PEP 263 implemented already? Must investigate...

No, not in any released version. Meanwhile, I recommend to stay away
from Unicode literals if you need "funny" characters, and write

  unicode("<string containing funny characters>", "utf-8")

intead.

Regards,
Martin