Stefan Behnel wrote: >>>>> print u'\xb5' >> µ > > What you > see in the last line is what the Python interpreter makes of your unicode > string when passing it into stdout, which in your case seems to use a > latin-1 encoding (check your environment settings for that).
The "seems to" is misleading. The example doesn't actually tell you anything about the encoding used by your console, except that it can display non-ASCII characters. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list