On 2006-10-19, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:
> In <slrnejf84b.rk.horpner at FIAD06.norwich.edu>, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>>> Note that 'K\xc3\xb6ni'.decode('utf-8') returns a Unicode
>>> object. With print this is implicitly converted to string. The
>>> char set used depends on your console
>>>> No, the setting of the console encoding (sys.stdout.encoding) is
>> ignored.
>> Nope, it is not ignored. This would not work then::
>> In [2]: print 'K\xc3\xb6nig'.decode('utf-8')
> König
>> In [3]: import sys
>> In [4]: sys.getdefaultencoding()
> Out[4]: 'ascii'
OK, I was thinking of the behavior of file.write(s). Thanks again
for the correction.
--
Neil Cerutti
