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Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 07:14:55 -0700
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Subject: Re: Stuck with urllib.quote and Unicode/UTF-8
From: Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com>
To: Marian Steinbach <marian@sendung.de>
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On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Marian Steinbach <marian@sendung.de> wrote:
> An addition/correction:
>
> It seems as if my input variable address is not Unicode. This is what
> I get for print [address]:
>
> ['K\xf6ln, Nordrhein-Westfalen']
>
> Isn't this utf-8 encoding?

Nope, it's Latin-1 (or similar, e.g. Windows-1252):
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Dec  5 2010, 00:12:20)
>>> x =3D u"K=C3=B6ln"
>>> x.encode('utf_8')
'K\xc3\xb6ln'
>>> x.encode('latin_1')
'K\xf6ln'
>>>

Cheers,
Chris
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