Problem with national characters

[Max M]

Leif B. Kristensen wrote:

> Is there a way around this problem? My character set in Linux is
> ISO-8859-1. In Windows 2000 it should be the equivavent Latin-1, though
> I'm not sure about which character set the command shell is using.

The unicode methods seems to do it correctly. So you can decode your 
strings as unicode, do the transfom, and encode it back as latin1.

print repr('før'.decode('latin-1').upper().encode('latin-1')) #
'F\xd8R'


print repr('FØR'.decode('latin-1').encode('latin-1'))
'F\xd8R'

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