[Pythonmac-SIG] Accented characters

[Jack Jansen]

I knew there was a solution to this, but it wasn't easy to find:-)

But I did find it: see <http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html> for 
an explanation on how to state the encoding of your sourcefile. And the 
easiest way to do it is to save your file as UTF-8 and with BOM marks. 
I think BBEdit has an option to save files in this format.

On 10 Jul 2004, at 23:22, Quarante-Deux wrote:

> I'm new to python and I need to process some text written in French 
> with various accented characters.
>
> I have read about the locale module and codecs and anything else I 
> could find to no avail.
>
> In IDLE I can't even type an accented character.
>
> In Terminal, I must activite "escape non ASCII characters" in the 
> Emulation setting.
>
> If I write a script that writes a file to disk I never get anything 
> good either.
>
> I have tried various combinations of locale.setlocale, and also 
> various combinations of unicode and locale settings for the re module. 
> Nothing works.
>
> I need:
> 1/ to be able to sort correctly
> 2/ to be able to have regular expressions recognize word boundaries 
> correctly.
>
> I'm using Mac OSX with the preinstalled Python 2.3.3. I either use 
> IDLE or BBEdit and the Terminal.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Ellen
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