Re: [Pythoncard-users] Unicode [slightly OT]

[Brian M. <mrb...@gm...>]

You are successfully loading the unicode  u'a\u2019s' into the
variable, s, with no problem other than displaying in a
old-fashioned shell.
The best I am able to do in my Emacs Python shell is
>>> s.encode('cp1252')
'a\x92s'
>>> print s.encode('cp1252')
a\222s

So, I don't get any error with CP-1252.
I think if you want the quote mark to appear as a quote mark,
you will have to work in a more modern GUI window, such as
the Code Editor Shell.

This article "Unicode in Python" by Jason  Orendorff helped
me understand a similar DOS window Python unicode problem.
http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/python.html
Search the article for the word "unfortunately"  and read from that
point. He concludes with
" So in general it is not possible to determine what encoding to
use with print. It is therefore better to send Unicode output to files
or Unicode-aware GUIs, not to sys.stdout."
I have not found anything to contradict this conclusion.

I found that from the links collected in another good article,
"Unicode Secrets" by Uche Ogbuji May 18, 2005
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/05/18/unicode.html

Good luck