s = 'A\xcc\x88' #capital A with umlaut
print s #displays capital A with umlaut
s = raw_input('Ente r: ') #A\xcc\x88
print s #displays A\xcc\x88
print len(input) #9
It looks like every character of the string I enter in utf-8 is being
interpreted literally as 9 separate characters rather than one
character. How do I enter a capital A with an umlaut so that python
treats it as one character?
6  4204 
On Oct 12, 1:53 pm, 7stud <bbxx789_0...@y ahoo.comwrote:
s = 'A\xcc\x88' #capital A with umlaut
print s #displays capital A with umlaut
s = raw_input('Ente r: ') #A\xcc\x88
print s #displays A\xcc\x88
print len(input) #9
It looks like every character of the string I enter in utf-8 is being
interpreted literally as 9 separate characters rather than one
character. How do I enter a capital A with an umlaut so that python
treats it as one character?
I don't know. This works for me:
>>x = raw_input('Ente r: ')
Enter: ä
>>len(x)
1
>>>
I'm using Python 2.4 with Default Source Encoding set to None on
Windows XP SP2.
Mike
On Oct 12, 1:18 pm, kyoso...@gmail. com wrote:
On Oct 12, 1:53 pm, 7stud <bbxx789_0...@y ahoo.comwrote:
s = 'A\xcc\x88' #capital A with umlaut
print s #displays capital A with umlaut
s = raw_input('Ente r: ') #A\xcc\x88
print s #displays A\xcc\x88
print len(input) #9
It looks like every character of the string I enter in utf-8 is being
interpreted literally as 9 separate characters rather than one
character. How do I enter a capital A with an umlaut so that python
treats it as one character?
I don't know. This works for me:
>x = raw_input('Ente r: ')
Enter: ä
>len(x)
1
I'm using Python 2.4 with Default Source Encoding set to None on
Windows XP SP2.
Mike
Yeah, but what happens when you enter A\xcc\x88? And what is it that
your keyboard enters to produce an 'a' with an umlaut?
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:18:35 -0700, 7stud wrote:
On Oct 12, 1:18 pm, kyoso...@gmail. com wrote:
>On Oct 12, 1:53 pm, 7stud <bbxx789_0...@y ahoo.comwrote:
s = 'A\xcc\x88' #capital A with umlaut
print s #displays capital A with umlaut
s = raw_input('Ente r: ') #A\xcc\x88
print s #displays A\xcc\x88
print len(input) #9
It looks like every character of the string I enter in utf-8 is being
interpreted literally as 9 separate characters rather than one
character. How do I enter a capital A with an umlaut so that python
treats it as one character?
I don't know. This works for me:
>>x = raw_input('Ente r: ')
Enter:
>>len(x)
1
I'm using Python 2.4 with Default Source Encoding set to None on
Windows XP SP2.
Mike
Yeah, but what happens when you enter A\xcc\x88?
You mean literally!? Then of course I get A\xcc\x88 because that's what I
entered. In string literals in source code the backslash has a special
meaning but `raw_input()` does not "interpret" the input in any way.
And what is it that your keyboard enters to produce an 'a' with an umlaut?
*I* just hit the ä key. The one right next to the ö key. ;-)
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Oct 12, 2:43 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_...@gmx.net wrote:
You mean literally!? Then of course I get A\xcc\x88 because that's what I
entered. In string literals in source code the backslash has a special
meaning but `raw_input()` does not "interpret" the input in any way.
Then why don't I end up with the same situation as this:
s = 'A\xcc\x88' #capital A with umlaut
print s #displays capital A with umlaut
And what is it that your keyboard enters to produce an 'a' with an umlaut?
*I* just hit the ä key. The one right next to the ö key. ;-)
....and what if you don't have an a-with-umlaut key?
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:09:46 -0700, 7stud wrote:
On Oct 12, 2:43 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_...@gmx.net wrote:
>You mean literally!? Then of course I get A\xcc\x88 because that's what I
entered. In string literals in source code the backslash has a special
meaning but `raw_input()` does not "interpret" the input in any way.
Then why don't I end up with the same situation as this:
s = 'A\xcc\x88' #capital A with umlaut
print s #displays capital A with umlaut
I don't get the question!? In string literals in source code the
backslash has a special meaning, like I wrote above. When Python compiles
that above snippet you end up with a string of three bytes, one with the
ASCII value of an 'A' and two bytes where you typed in the byte value in
hexadecimal:
In [191]: s = 'A\xcc\x88'
In [192]: len(s)
Out[192]: 3
In [193]: map(ord, s)
Out[193]: [65, 204, 136]
In [194]: print s
Ä
The last works this way only if the receiving/displaying program expected
UTF-8 as encoding. Otherwise something other than an Ä would have been
shown.
If you type in that text when asked by `raw_input()` then you get exactly
what you typed because there is no Python source code compiled:
In [195]: s = raw_input()
A\xcc\x88
In [196]: len(s)
Out[196]: 9
In [197]: map(ord, s)
Out[197]: [65, 92, 120, 99, 99, 92, 120, 56, 56]
In [198]: print s
A\xcc\x88
And what is it that your keyboard enters to produce an 'a' with an
umlaut?
*I* just hit the key. The one right next to the ö key. ;-)
...and what if you don't have an a-with-umlaut key?
I find other means to enter it. <Alt+ some magic number on the numeric
keypad in windows, or <Compose>, <a>, <"on Unix/Linux. Some text editors
offer special sequences too. If all fails there are character map
programs that show all unicode characters to choose from and copy'n'paste
them.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Oct 13, 3:09 am, 7stud <bbxx789_0...@y ahoo.comwrote:
On Oct 12, 2:43 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_...@gmx.net wrote:
You mean literally!? Then of course I get A\xcc\x88 because that's what I
entered. In string literals in source code the backslash has a special
meaning but `raw_input()` does not "interpret" the input in any way.
Then why don't I end up with the same situation as this:
s = 'A\xcc\x88' #capital A with umlaut
print s #displays capital A with umlaut
And what is it that your keyboard enters to produce an 'a' with an umlaut?
*I* just hit the ä key. The one right next to the ö key. ;-)
...and what if you don't have an a-with-umlaut key?
raw_input() returns the string exactly as you entered it. You can
decode that into the actual UTF-8 string with decode("string_ escape"):
s = raw_input('Ente r: ') #A\xcc\x88
s = s.decode("strin g_escape")
It looks like your system already understands UTF-8 and will decode
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