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Re: Unicode failure

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On Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:07:38 -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> 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)

Hmmmm, interesting:

Python 2.7.3 (default, Jun 22 2015, 19:43:34) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print sys.getdefaultencoding()
ascii
>>> print u'\N{TRADE MARK SIGN}'
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Unicode failure "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@VybeNetworks.com> - 2015-12-04 13:07 -0500
  Re: Unicode failure Dave Farrance <df@see.replyto.invalid> - 2015-12-06 09:06 +0000
    Re: Unicode failure Dave Farrance <df@see.replyto.invalid> - 2015-12-06 09:16 +0000
    Re: Unicode failure Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-06 09:34 +0000
    Re: Unicode failure Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-12-06 15:36 -0500
  Re: Unicode failure Quivis <quivis@domain.invalid> - 2015-12-06 23:09 +0000
    Re: Unicode failure Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-12-07 10:48 +0000

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