RE: Unicode failure

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I think you need to use a raw unicode string, ur

>>> unicodedata.name(ur'\u2122')
'TRADE MARK SIGN'

> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 13:07:38 -0500
> From: darcy@VybeNetworks.com
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: Unicode failure
> 
> I thought that going to Python 3.4 would solve my Unicode issues but it
> seems I still don't understand this stuff.  Here is my script.
> 
> #! /usr/bin/python3
> # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
> import sys 
> print(sys.getdefaultencoding()) 
> print(u"\N{TRADE MARK SIGN}") 
> 
> And here is my output.
> 
> utf-8
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./g", line 5, in <module>
>     print(u"\N{TRADE MARK SIGN}")
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2122' in
> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> TIA.
> 
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> D'Arcy J.M. Cain
> Vybe Networks Inc.
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RE: Unicode failure Albert-Jan Roskam <sjeik_appie@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-04 22:49 +0000

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