url encode latin-1 characters

[John Machin]

Lurker wrote:
> I want send latin-1 string to web server by url parameter
>
> urllib.quote return just symbol code with preceeding percent for every
> non-ascii character:
> #>ustr = 'Ü'
> #>urllib.quote(ustr)
> '%9A'
>

The latin1 encoding for U-with-umlaut is 0xDC.
The cp850 encoding for the same is 0x9A.
I deduce that you typed the above in a DOS command window on a Windows
box.
Fire up IDLE and try the same thing again.

> but this seems to be wrong because server response contains my
> parameter and it differ from original (for example 'Ü' became '[')

You told it (maybe) that you were sending in latin1, then gave it 0x9A
which in latin1 is a control character (SCI, single character
introducer) and it gave you back a '[' ... garbage in, garbage out,
perhaps?

How about showing us (a) a snippet of the code you actually executed
(b) the repr() of what was returned -- *NOT* a copy/paste from the
screen; as shown above, a picture of U with two dots above it is not
reliable information.

Cheers,
John