string encoding problem

[Chad Netzer]

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 14:34, Rodolphe wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've got the very short code :
>
> import tkSimpleDialog
> str = tkSimpleDialog.askstring('Bug','Say something...')
> print str
>
> And when I run it and enter a string containing accented characters (like
> "fenêtre"), I've got this :
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

Since Martin already answered, I'll just provide a link which I found 
helpful:

http://www.reportlab.com/i18n/python_unicode_tutorial.html

Furthermore, I want to let you know that using 'str' as a variable name is 
not advised, since it masks the builtin str() constructor (which at first 
glance I thought might be related to your problem).  For throwaway string 
variables, I often just use 's'.

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Chad Netzer
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