[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 54, Issue 64

[Lie Ryan]

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> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:33:28 +0200
> From: "Robert Johansson" <robert.johansson at math.umu.se>
> Subject: [Tutor] unsupported characters
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> Hi, I have problems using characters from the Swedish language. I
> tried the
> following in IDLE under MacOS X leopard (running Python 2.5.1)  :
> 
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> 
> S=???
> 
>  
> 
> Displaying error message: ?unsupported characters in input?.
> 

This is because Python 2, by default, assumed ASCII encoding for its
source codes (Python 3, by default, assumed utf-8, I think). You can
change the default encoding by adding this "magic comment":

# coding=<encoding name>

or:

# -*- coding: <encoding name> -*-

or:

# vim: set fileencoding=<encoding name> :

to the first or second line of your source code (usually the <encoding
name> would be utf-8, but it can be any encoding supported by python).
The encoding declaration may be in the first or second line to allow its
usage together with pound-bang comment.

read: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/

> 
> Running Python from a terminal I can?t even type the character, all
> that
> happens is that I get a little ?boing? from my machine.I tried to set
> various things  like LC_CTYPE with the locale module but that doesn?t
> work.
> I don?t really know what that module does but If I try
> locale.getlocale(), I
> get: (?sv_SE?,?ISO8859-1?). Anyone who knows how to fix this? I would
> be
> very grateful.
> 
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> 
> /Robert 
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