Paul Watson wrote: > cantabile wrote: > >> Hi, being a newbie in Python, I'm a bit lost with the '-*- coding : >> -*-' directive. >> >> I'm using an accented characters language. Some of them are correctly >> displayed while one doesn't. I've written : >> -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >> >> Is this wrong ? >> >> Where can I find a pratical explanation about these encodings ? >> >> Thanks. > > > You must know the encoding produced by your editor. > > If you want to experiment, you could save a small file and run > > od -Ax -tx1 thefile.py > > to see exactly what codepoints appear. Compare those with the > charts at http://www.unicode.org/ and you can probably surmize > a good guess.
Perhaps faster, and certainly available on all platforms (unlike "od"): Fire up Idle, then do this: >>> import sys >>> sys.stdout.encoding 'cp1252' >>> Why Idle, and not from the command line? Well because if you are on Windows, you'll get a different answer, which is very unlikely to be the one you want [unless you are using a legacy editor]. C:\junk>python Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.stdout.encoding 'cp850' >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
