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

[Mariano Draghi]

Hace mucho tiempo en una galaxia muy, muy lejana, Mike Dee escribió:
>    A very very basic UTF-8 question that's driving me nuts:
> 
> If I have this in the beginning of my Python script in Linux:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
> 
> should I - or should I not - be able to use non-ASCII characters 
> in strings and in Tk GUI button labels and GUI window titles and in 
> raw_input data without Python returning wrong case in manipulated 
> strings and/or gibberished characters in Tk GUI title? 
...

I'd recommend reading "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer 
Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No 
Excuses!)", by Joel Spolsky:
- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

It's not based on Python (nor any other language either...), but I find 
it *very* useful.

Regards,

-- 
Mariano