On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Tracubik <affdfsdfds...@b.com> wrote: > Il Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:54:17 -0500, Benjamin Kaplan ha scritto: > >> First of all, if you haven't read this before, please do. It will make >> this much clearer. >> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html > > i'm reading it right now, thanks :-) > > [cut] > >> Solution to your problem: in addition to keeping the #-*- coding ... >> line, go with Günther's advice and use Unicode strings. > > that is: always use the "u" operator (i.e. my_name = u"Nico"), right? > > Ciao, > Nico >
Short answer: yes. Slightly longer explanation for future reference: This is true for Python 2 but not Python 3. One of the big changes in Python 3 is that strings are Unicode by default because you're not the only one who runs into this problem. So in Python 3, just writing 'Nico' will make a Unicode string and you have to explicitly declare b'Nico' if you want to look at it as a series of bytes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
