On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 17:15 +0700, Lie Ryan wrote: > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:33:28 +0200 > > From: "Robert Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [Tutor] unsupported characters > > To: <Tutor@python.org> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@math.umu.se> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Hi, I have problems using characters from the Swedish language. I > > tried the > > following in IDLE under MacOS X leopard (running Python 2.5.1) : > > > > > > > > S=??? > > > > > > > > Displaying error message: ?unsupported characters in input?. > > > > This is because Python 2, by default, assumed ASCII encoding for its > source codes (Python 3, by default, assumed utf-8, I think). You can > change the default encoding by adding this "magic comment": > > # coding=<encoding name> > > or: > > # -*- coding: <encoding name> -*- > > or: > > # vim: set fileencoding=<encoding name> : > > to the first or second line of your source code (usually the <encoding > name> would be utf-8, but it can be any encoding supported by python). > The encoding declaration may be in the first or second line to allow its > usage together with pound-bang comment. > > read: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ > > > > > Running Python from a terminal I can?t even type the character, all > > that > > happens is that I get a little ?boing? from my machine.I tried to set > > various things like LC_CTYPE with the locale module but that doesn?t > > work. > > I don?t really know what that module does but If I try > > locale.getlocale(), I > > get: (?sv_SE?,?ISO8859-1?). Anyone who knows how to fix this? I would > > be > > very grateful. > > > > > > > > /Robert > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: > > <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/attachments/20080817/f66af4dd/attachment-0001.htm> > >
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