On Oct 15, 11:38 pm, "Mark Tolonen" <metolone+gm...@gmail.com> wrote: > "hiral" <hiralsmaill...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:90b62600-a0a4-47d5-bb6f-a3ae14cf6...@9g2000prn.googlegroups.com... > > > Hi, > > I tried... > > > <code> > > # coding: latin-1 > > print "**********************************************************" > > oo = "ö" > > print "char=<%s>" % oo > > print "**********************************************************" > > </code> > > > but it is not printing "ö" char; any idea? > > 1) Make sure you save your source in the encoding declared, or change the > encoding to match. Any encoding that supports ö will work. > 2) Use Unicode strings. > 3) Only print characters your terminal supports, or you will get a > UnicodeEncoding error. > > Below works in PythonWin GUI (utf-8 encoding) and US-Windows console (cp437 > encoding). > > <code> > # coding: latin-1 > print u"**********************************************************" > oo = u"ö" > print u"char=<%s>" % oo > print u"**********************************************************" > </code> > > Coding line declares *source* encoding, so Python can *decode* characters > contained in the source. > > "print" will *encode* characters to the terminal encoding, if known. > > -Mark
Thanks Mark. Thank you. -Hiral -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
