Python and UTF-8

[Wolfgang Strobl]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 20:41:24 +0100, Matthias Huening
<matthias.huening at t-online.de> wrote :

>----------------------
>>>> import locale
>>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"")
>'German_Germany.1252'
>>>> t = 'Mühsam ernährt sich das Eichhörnchen.'
>>>> print t.upper()
>MÜHSAM ERNÄHRT SICH DAS EICHHÖRNCHEN.
>>>> tu = unicode(t, 'latin-1').encode('utf-8')
>>>> print tu.upper()

Won't work. 'upper' doesn't know anything about the utf-8-encoding. it
assumes cp1252 according to the locale settings. 'tu' isn't an unicode
string.

>MüHSAM ERNäHRT SICH DAS EICHHöRNCHEN.
>>>> 
>----------------------

(W2K, Ger)

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>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"")
'German_Germany.1252'
>>> t="Mühsam ernährt sich das Eichhörnchen"
>>> tu=unicode(t,"latin-1")
>>> tu
u'M\xfchsam ern\xe4hrt sich das Eichh\xf6rnchen'
>>> tu.upper()
u'M\xdcHSAM ERN\xc4HRT SICH DAS EICHH\xd6RNCHEN'
>>> print tu.upper().encode("latin-1")
MÜHSAM ERNÄHRT SICH DAS EICHHÖRNCHEN

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