> > Hi, I'm puzzled by the character encodings which I get when I use Python
> > with IDLE. The string '\xf6' represents a letter in the Swedish alphabet
> > when coded with utf8. On our computer with MacOSX this gets coded as
> > '\xc3\xb6' which is a string of length 2. I have configured IDLE
As for other resources, I recently came across this:
http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/
This was the first explanation that really made me understand the
difference between Unicode and utf-8 (and realize that I'd been using
the terms 'encode' and 'decode' backwards!). Anyway, just one more
r
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Robert Johansson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I'm puzzled by the character encodings which I get when I use Python
> with IDLE. The string '\xf6' represents a letter in the Swedish alphabet
> when coded with utf8. On our computer with MacOSX this gets coded as
>
Hi, I'm puzzled by the character encodings which I get when I use Python
with IDLE. The string '\xf6' represents a letter in the Swedish alphabet
when coded with utf8. On our computer with MacOSX this gets coded as
'\xc3\xb6' which is a string of length 2. I have configured IDLE to encode
utf8 but
