hm I guess I found an answer myself
on windows, the default encoding is not 'utf8'
thus, if I use
encoding = locale.getlocale()[1]
t.decode(encoding)
instead of
t.decode('utf8')
it works
On 1/31/07, frank h. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all,
using python 2.4.4, I have the following ses
Hello all,
using python 2.4.4, I have the following session on Mac OS X:
import datetime, locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'se_SE')
t=datetime.date(2007,01,29).strftime("%A")
t
'M?\xa5ndag'
type(t)
t.decode('utf8')
u'M\xe5ndag'
fantastic! I just got the unicode version of the swedish name
