How do I display unicode value stored in a string variable using ord()

[Mark Lawrence]

On 19/08/2012 19:11, wxjmfauth at gmail.com wrote:
> Le dimanche 19 août 2012 19:48:06 UTC+2, Paul Rubin a écrit :
>>
>>
>> But they are not ascii pages, they are (as stated) MOSTLY ascii.
>>
>> E.g. the characters are 99% ascii but 1% non-ascii, so 393 chooses
>>
>> a much more memory-expensive encoding than UTF-8.
>>
>>
>
> Imagine an us banking application, everything in ascii,
> except ... the € currency symbole, code point 0x20ac.
>
> Well, it seems some software producers know what they
> are doing.
>
>>>> '€'.encode('cp1252')
> b'\x80'
>>>> '€'.encode('mac-roman')
> b'\xdb'
>>>> '€'.encode('iso-8859-1')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<eta last command>", line 1, in <module>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u20ac'
> in position 0: ordinal not in range(256)
>
> jmf
>

Well that's it then, the world stock markets will all collapse tonight 
when the news leaks out that those stupid Americans haven't yet realised 
that much of Europe (with at least one very noticeable and sensible 
exception :) uses Euros.  I'd better sell all my stock holdings fast.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.