Another å, ä, ö question

[Martin Schöön]

Den 2016-09-22 skrev Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de>:
> Martin Schöön wrote:
>> 
>> I am not sure I answer your questions since I am not quite sure I
>> understand it but here goes: The complete file is UTF-8 encoded as
>> that is how Geany is set up to create new files (I just checked).
>
> When the encoding used for the file and the encoding used by the terminal 
> differ the output of non-ascii characters gets messed up. Example script:
>
> # -*- coding: iso-8859-15 -*-
>
> print "first unicode:"
> print u"Schöön"
>
> print "then bytes:"
> print "Schöön"
>
> When I dump that in my UTF-8 terminal all "ö"s are lost because it gets the 
> invalid byte sequence b"\xf6" rather than the required b"\xc3\xb6":
>
> $ cat demo.py
> # -*- coding: iso-8859-15 -*-
>
> print "first unicode:"
> print u"Sch��n"
>
> print "then bytes:"
> print "Sch��n"
>
> But when I run the code:
>
> $ python demo.py
> first unicode:
> Schöön
> then bytes:
> Sch��n
>
> There are other advantages, too:
>
>>>> print "Schöön".upper()
> SCHööN
>>>> print u"Schöön".upper()
> SCHÖÖN
>>>> print "Schöön"[:4]
> Sch�
>>>> print u"Schöön"[:4]
> Schö
>
Cool :-)
Thanks for the education.

/Martin