On Jul 13, 5:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In Idle when I do print 'รก'.isalpha() I get True. When I make and > execute a script file with the same code I get False. > > Why do I have diferent answers ?
Non-ASCII characters in ordinary (8-bit) strings have all kinds of strangeness. First, the answer of isalpha() and friends depends on the current locale. By default, Python uses the "C" locale where the alphabetic characters are a-zA-z only. To set the locale to whatever is the OS setting for the current user, put this near the beginning of your script: import locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'') Apparently IDLE does this for you. Hence the discrepancy you noted. Second, there is the matter of encoding. String literals like the one you used in your example are stored in whatever encoding your text editor chose to store your program in. If it doesn't match the encoding using by the current locale, once again the program fails. As I see it, the only way to properly handle characters outside the ASCII set is to use Unicode strings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
