Hi, while checking out Python 3, I read that all text strings are now natively Unicode. In the Python language reference (http://docs.python.org/3.0/reference/ lexical_analysis.html) I read that I can show Unicode character in several ways. "\uxxxx" supposedly allows me to specify the Unicode character by hex number and the format "\N{name}" allows me to specify by Unicode name. Neither seem to work for me. What am I doing wrong ?
Please see error output below where I am trying to show the EURO sign (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/20ac/index.htm): Python 3.0 (r30:67507, Dec 3 2008, 20:14:27) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print('\u20ac') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "c:\python30\lib\io.py", line 1491, in write b = encoder.encode(s) File "c:\python30\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in position 0: character maps to <undefined> >>> >>> print ("\N{EURO SIGN}") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "c:\python30\lib\io.py", line 1491, in write b = encoder.encode(s) File "c:\python30\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in position 0: character maps to <undefined> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
