Encoding problems

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Gandalf schrieb:
> However, the input (the result of raw_input) will be in the correct 
> encoding (iso-8859-2 in my case) without any conversion.
> I do not understand why is that? The stdin encoding is cp852, not 
> iso-8859-2.

Why do you say that the input will be in the correct encoding? In
your original message, you said that you got this:

'n\xe9z'
'n\x82z'

where the first string was repr(s1) (i.e. in the source encoding,
iso-8859-2). The second string (repr(s2)) is the one that you got
from raw_input, so it is *not* in iso-8859-2. Why do you say it
is?

Regards,
Martin