Umlauts in idle

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:51 PM, a_olme <anders.olme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> When I try to use umlauts in idle it will only print out as Unicode
> escape characters. Is it possible to configure idle to print them as
> ordinary characters?


> Best Regards Anders Olme



Make sure you are using Unicode strings and not byte strings. This is why
Python 3 switched to using Unicode by default.

IDLE 2.6.1 on Mac 10.5 :

>>> print u'\u00c4'
Ä
>>> print '\u00c4'
\u00c4


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