In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ron Garret wrote:
>
> > I'm using an OS X terminal to ssh to a Linux machine.
>
> Click on the "Terminal" menu, then "Window Settings...". Choose "Display"
> from
> the combobox. At the bottom you will see a combobox title "Character Set
> Encoding". Choose "Unicode (UTF-8)".
It was already set to UTF-8.
> > But what about this:
> >
> >>>>f2=open('foo','w')
> >>>>f2.write(u'\xFF')
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xff' in
> > position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
> >
> > That should have nothing to do with my terminal, right?
>
> Correct, that is a different problem. f.write() expects a string of bytes,
> not a
> unicode string. In order to convert unicode strings to byte strings without
> an
> explicit .encode() method call, Python uses the default encoding which is
> 'ascii'. It's not easily changeable for a good reason. Your modules won't
> work
> on anyone else's machine if you hack that setting.
OK.
> > I just found http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode, which seems to be
> > enlightening. The answer seems to be something like:
> >
> > import codecs
> > f = codecs.open('foo','w','utf-8')
> >
> > but that seems pretty awkward.
>
> <shrug> About as clean as it gets when dealing with text encodings.
OK. Thanks.
rg
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