UTF-8 / German, Scandinavian letters - is it really this difficult?? Linux & Windows XP

[Max M]

Fuzzyman wrote:
> Mike Dee wrote:

>>#!/usr/bin/env python
>># -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

> This will mean string literals in your source code will be encoded as
> UTF8 - if you handle them with normal string operations you might get
> funny results.

It means that you don't have to explicitely set the encoding on strings.

If your coding isn't set you must write:

ust = 'æøå'.decode('utf-8')

If it is set, you can just write:

ust = u'æøå'

And this string will automatically be utf-8 encoded:

st = 'æøå'

So you should be able to convert it to unicode without giving an encoding:

ust = unicode(st)

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hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark

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