Thomas Heller <thel...@ctypes.org> wrote: ><output> > æm > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "x.py", line 7, in <module> > print(b) > File "C:\Python33-64\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 19, in encode > return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0] > UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u03bc' in > position 0: character maps to <undefined> ></output> > > Using (german) windows, command prompt, codepage 850. > > The same happens with Python 2.7. What am I doing wrong? >
They are different characters: >>> repr(a) "u'\\xb5m'" >>> repr(b) "u'\\u03bcm'" a contains unicode MICRO SIGN, b contains GREEK SMALL LETTER MU -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
