2008/10/11 Damian Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi, when getting text via the raw_input method it's always a string (even
> if it contains non-ASCII characters). The problem lies in that whenever I
> try to check equality against a Unicode string it fails. I've tried using
> the unicode method to
In order to convert a byte sequence to Unicode, Python needs to know
the encoding being used. When you don't specify a encoding, it tries
ASCII, which obviously errors if your byte sequence isn't ASCII, like
in your case.
Figure out what encoding your terminal/system is set to, then use the
.decod
