char 128? no... 256

[Afanasiy]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:50:53 GMT, Afanasiy <abelikov72 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:18:43 GMT, Afanasiy <abelikov72 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>>This isn't even unicode, it's extended ascii characters used in foreign
>>languages. I can't print them, or write them to file, etc... They are
>>normal chars. This really annoying, a str() around it doesn't even work.
>
>Ok, though it doesn't matter I will tell you I am using MSSQL through ADO.
>People will now tell I should not be using those and I will ignore them.
>
>Now, even encoding the 'latin-1', 8 bit, is problematic, because symbols
>which are 8 bit in Windows, such as the TradeMark symbol will not encode
>into 8 bit, as the ordinal value in the Unicode object is 8482.
>
>This is hex 99 on a plain Windows 2000 install, I presume 'latin-1'.
>(Which is iso-8859-1 afaik) This will show up in webpages designated :
>
><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>
>This will show up in notepad... and in my non-unicode text editors.
>
>It always shows up as the TradeMark symbol.
>
>So how would I encode this Unicode character, 8482 so that it would
>show up as a TradeMark symbol on Windows 2000 machines. Windows 2000
>can display a TradeMark symbol in non Unicode applications.

To clarify, the TradeMark symbol is being transformed to Unicode #8482
automatically, presumably by COM or ADO. In Python, I do not know how
I am supposed to be able to print (for example) the Unicode object I
receive which contains this transformed TradeMark symbol.