Unicode formatting for Strings

[robson.cozendey.rj at gmail.com]

On Feb 5, 7:00 pm, "Chris Mellon" <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Kent Johnson <k... at kentsjohnson.com> wrote:
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> > robson.cozendey... at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi,
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> > > I´m trying desperately to tell the interpreter to put an 'á' in my
> > > string, so here is the code snippet:
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> > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> > > filename = u"Ataris Aquáticos #2.txt"
> > > f = open(filename, 'w')
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> > > Then I save it with Windows Notepad, in the UTF-8 format. So:
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> > > 1) I put the "magic comment" at the start of the file
> > > 2) I write u"" to specify my unicode string
> > > 3) I save it in the UTF-8 format
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> > > And even so, I get an error!
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> > >   File "Ataris Aqußticos #2.py", line 1
> > > SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xff' in file Ataris Aqußticos #2.py
> > > on line 1
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> > It looks like you are saving the file in Unicode format (not utf-8) and
> > Python is choking on the Byte Order Mark that Notepad puts at the
> > beginning of the document.
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> Notepad does support saving to UTF-8, and I was able to do this
> without the problem the OP was having. I also saved both with and
> without a BOM (in UTF-8) using SciTe, and Python worked correctly in
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> > Try using an editor that will save utf-8 without a BOM, e.g. jedit or
> > TextPad.
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> > Kent
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I saved it in UTF-8 with Notepad. I was thinking here... It can be a
limitation of file.open() method? Have anyone tested that?