(just for confirm)
Hi! if the console is in cp1252, raw_input work OK with "ñ" This (your) script : # -*- coding: cp1252 -*- import sys text1 = u'españa' text2 = unicode(raw_input(), sys.stdin.encoding) if text1 == text2: print 'same' else: print 'not same' work OK with "chcp 850" AND "chcp 1252" @-salutations Michel Claveau
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