Hi,
on a Linux system and python 2.5.1 I have the following behaviour which I do not understand: case 1 > python -c 'a="ä"; print a ; print a.center(6,"-") ; b=unicode(a, "utf8"); > print b.center(6,"-")' ä --ä-- --ä--- > case 2 ----- an UnicodeEncodeError in this case: > python -c 'a="ä"; print a ; print a.center(20,"-") ; b=unicode(a, "utf8"); > print b.center(20,"-")' | cat Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 9: ordinal not in range(128) ä --ä-- > The behaviour changes if I pipe the output to another prog or to a file. and centering with the string a is not correct, but with string b. Could somebody please explain this to me? Thanks in advance -- Kurt Müller, m...@problemlos.ch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
