[Tutor] more encoding confusion

[Kent Johnson]

Jon Crump wrote:
> 
> Kent, Many thanks again, and thanks too to Paul at 
> http://tinyurl.com/yrl8cy.
> 
> That's very effective, thanks very much for the detailed explanation; 
> however, I'm a little surprised that it's necessary. I would have 
> thought that there would be some standard module that included a unicode 
> equivalent of the builtin method isupper().

Hmm...actually, isupper() works fine on unicode strings:
In [18]: s='H\303\211RON'.decode('utf-8')
In [21]: print 'H\303\211RON'
HÉRON
In [22]: s.isupper()
Out[22]: True

:-)


> I modified uppers to include only the latin characters, and added the 
> apostrophe to catch placenames like L'ISLE.

Then you are back to needing a regular expression I think.

Kent

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