raw_input() and utf-8 formatted chars

[7stud]

On Oct 12, 1:18 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Oct 12, 1:53 pm, 7stud <bbxx789_0... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > s = 'A\xcc\x88'   #capital A with umlaut
> > print s           #displays capital A with umlaut
>
> > s = raw_input('Enter: ')   #A\xcc\x88
> > print s                    #displays A\xcc\x88
>
> > print len(input)           #9
>
> > It looks like every character of the string I enter in utf-8 is being
> > interpreted literally as 9 separate characters rather than one
> > character.  How do I enter a capital A with an umlaut so that python
> > treats it as one character?
>
> I don't know. This works for me:
>
>
>
> >>> x = raw_input('Enter: ')
> Enter: ä
> >>> len(x)
> 1
>
> I'm using Python 2.4 with Default Source Encoding set to None on
> Windows XP SP2.
>
> Mike

Yeah, but what happens when you enter A\xcc\x88?  And what is it that
your keyboard enters to produce an 'a' with an umlaut?