Umlauts in idle

[a_olme]

Hello all,

When I try to use umlauts in idle it will only print out as Unicode
escape characters. Is it possible to configure idle to print them as
ordinary characters?

Best Regards Anders Olme

 

[Martin v. Löwis]

When I try to use umlauts in idle it will only print out as Unicode

escape characters. Is it possible to configure idle to print them as
ordinary characters?

Did you really use the print statement? They print out fine for me.

Regards,
Martin

 

[a_olme]

Did you really use the print statement? They print out fine for me.

Regards,
Martin

No I just put the characters in quotes like this "öäå"[::-1] and
pressed return.

//olme

 

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

Did you really use the print statement? They print out fine for me.

Regards,
Martin

No I just put the characters in quotes like this "öäå"[::-1] and pressed
return.

Then you have two problems: First, you don't have unicode characters but
a bunch of bytes which encode the three characters you've showed above.
Reversing the bytes might "break" them if your system uses multiple bytes
to encode one character, e.g. UTF-8, because the order does matter.

Second, if you don't ``print`` but let the interpreter show the result
you get the `repr()` form of that character displayed, which always uses
escapes for bytes that are non-printable or not within the ASCII range
for strings.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch