utf8 silly question

[Catalin Constantin]

i have the following code:

c=chr(169)+" some text"

how can i utf8 encode the variable above ?
something like in php utf8_encode($var);?!

chr(169) is the &copy (c) sign !

10x for your help !

p.s.: i tryed using codecs, etc but always get an error message
like: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa9 in position 0...
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Catalin Constantin
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[Grig Gheorghiu]

Salut, Catalin

You can first convert your c string to unicode, and in the process
specify an encoding that understands non-ASCII characters (if you don't
specify an encoding, it will try to use your default, which is most
likely ASCII, and you'll get the error you mentioned.). In the
following example, I specified 'iso-8859-1' as the encoding.

Then you can utf8-encode the c string via the codecs module.

Here's a snippet of code (note the error when I don't specify a
non-default unicode encoding):

Python 2.4 (#1, Nov 30 2004, 16:42:53)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

c = unicode(chr(169)+" some text") Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa9 in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128) c = unicode(chr(169)+" some text", 'iso-8859-1')
print c © some text import codecs
print codecs.encode(c, 'utf-8')

© some text

[Steven Bethard]

Grig Gheorghiu wrote:

import codecs
print codecs.encode(c, 'utf-8')

© some text

Or simply:

py> print c.encode('utf-8')
© some text