On Sun, 08 May 2005 11:23:49 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Svennglenn wrote: >> # -*- coding: cp1252 -*- >> >> titel = "åäö" >> titel = unicode(titel) > >Instead of this, just write > ># -*- coding: cp1252 -*- > >titel = u"åäö" > >> fil = open("testfil.txt", "w") >> fil.write(titel) >> fil.close() > >Instead of this, write > >import codecs >fil = codecs.open("testfil.txt", "w", "cp1252") >fil.write(titel) >fil.close() > >Instead of cp1252, consider using ISO-8859-1. Martin, I can't guess the reason for this last suggestion; why should a Windows system use iso-8859-1 instead of cp1252? Regards, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list