locale.CODESET / different in python shell and scripts

[Nuff Said]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:30:34 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Nuff Said wrote:
>> When I add the following line to the above script
>> 
>>   print u"schönes Mädchen".encode(encoding)
>> 
>> the result is:
>> 
>>   schönes Mädchen    (with my self-compiled Python 2.3)
>>   schönes Mädchen  (with Fedora's Python 2.2)
>> 
>> I observed, that my Python gives me (the correct value) 15 for
>> len(u"schönes Mädchen") whereas Fedora's Python says 17 (one more
>> for each German umlaut, i.e. the len of the UTF-8 representation of
>> the string; observe, that the file uses the coding cookie for UTF-8).
>> Maybe Fedora's Python was compiled without Unicode support?
> 
> Certainly not: It would not support u"" literals without Unicode.

That's what I thought.

 
> Please understand that you can use non-ASCII characters in source
> code unless you also use the facilities described in
> 
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html
> 
> So instead of "ö", you should write "\xf6".

But *I do use* the line 

  # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- 

from your PEP (directly after the shebang-line; s. the full source
code in my earlier posting). I thought, that allows me to write u"ö"
(which - as described above - works in one of my two Pythons).  

??? Nuff.