I like Unicode more than I used to...
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Thu Feb 20 00:06:06 EST 2003
Hmm -- made me want to check it out.
But why doesn't this work:
>>> print u'\u4378'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>
This does (I did a little poking around the docs after the above):
>>> print u"\u2122".encode('utf-8')
?
Hmm. Why do I need to do that? Is there no way to figure out how to print a
unicode string when I'm running in a unicode capable terminal? Also, is
there a list somewhere of what the "".encode() method understands? I was
unable to find one. I just guessed that "utf-8" would work from the above
example. Is that extendable in Python, or is it compiled-in?
This is what I've seen on this so far:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.1/whatsnew/node8.html
http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.1/lib/string-methods.html#l2h-116
http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.1/lib/module-codecs.html#l2h-803
The last one does have a way to register new codecs in the codecs module --
can the string method use any codec defined there? If so, how do you use
it?
Cheers,
Terry
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