On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 05:43:32 -0800, michele.simionato wrote: > Holger: > >> FWIW, i added the recipe back to the online cookbook. It's not > perfectly >> formatted but still useful, i hope. > >> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/361742 > > Uhm... on my system I get: > >>>> german_ae = unicode('\xc3\xa4', 'utf8') >>>> print german_ae # dunno if it will appear right on Google groups > ä > >>>> german_ae.decode('latin1') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in > position 0: ordinal not in range(128) > ?? What's wrong?
I'd rather use german_ae.encode('latin1') ^^^^^^ which returns '\xe4'. > > Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list