Continuation of the post, originally made in the Python-Brasil list:
I’ll try again, as the thread has already discussed three different things:
I’ll try to explain for everyone, as it’s a recurring topic.
But before getting back to these topics, we have to go back to files.
Continuation of the post, originally made in the Python-Brasil list:
I’ll try again, as the thread has already discussed three different things:
I’ll try to explain for everyone, as it’s a recurring topic.
But before getting back to these topics, we have to go back to files.
A fellow blogger on Python-Brasil:
The colleagues have already talked about why UTF-8.
I just want to remind that the subject is more complicated than it seems, for example in Python 2.7:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print "Accents: áéíóúãõç"
print u"Accents2: áéíóúãõç"
Run the program above on Windows, either through IDLE or console:
C:\Users\nilo\Desktop>\Python27\python.exe test.py
Accents: ├í├®├¡├│├║├º├ú├Á
Accents2: áéíóúçãõ
You should have obtained good results only on the Accents2 line. If the string is not marked with unicode, it will be simply printed as a sequence of bytes, without translation. If you have u in front, like in accents2, Python gets that it needs to translate from unicode to cp850, in this case of console here at home. Already on Linux, both lines produce correct results!
A fellow blogger on Python-Brasil:
The colleagues have already talked about why UTF-8.
I just want to remind that the subject is more complicated than it seems, for example in Python 2.7:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print "Accents: áéíóúãõç"
print u"Accents2: áéíóúãõç"
Run the program above on Windows, either through IDLE or console:
C:\Users\nilo\Desktop>\Python27\python.exe test.py
Accents: ├í├®├¡├│├║├º├ú├Á
Accents2: áéíóúçãõ
You should have obtained good results only on the Accents2 line. If the string is not marked with unicode, it will be simply printed as a sequence of bytes, without translation. If you have u in front, like in accents2, Python gets that it needs to translate from unicode to cp850, in this case of console here at home. Already on Linux, both lines produce correct results!