On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Marian Steinbach <mar...@sendung.de> wrote:
> An addition/correction:
>
> It seems as if my input variable address is not Unicode. This is what
> I get for print [address]:
>
> ['K\xf6ln, Nordrhein-Westfalen']
>
> Isn't this utf-8 encoding?
Nope, it's Latin-1 (or similar, e.g. Windows-1252):
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Dec 5 2010, 00:12:20)
>>> x = u"Köln"
>>> x.encode('utf_8')
'K\xc3\xb6ln'
>>> x.encode('latin_1')
'K\xf6ln'
>>>
Cheers,
Chris
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