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Joan Triay
Joan Triay

Reputation: 1658

how to encode ÿ using python?

Hi I tried thousands of encode, decode for this word L'Haÿ-les-Roses . Can somebody help me on how to encode correctly a word with ÿ using python 2.7?

encode("utf-8")
encode("utf-16")
encode("latin-1")
...

Thanks a lot in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1177

Answers (2)

Sraw
Sraw

Reputation: 20224

What do you want to do with it? To encode it is simple:

a = u"Saint-Rousÿes"
b = a.encode("utf-8")
c = b.decode("utf-8")
print c
# Saint-Rousÿes

But I think it depends on your situation. It doesn't matter how you encode it(surely using supported encoding), you just need to use the same encoding to decode it.

update

I wrote a minimal test:

import flask

app = flask.Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def test():
    return u"L'Haÿ-les-Roses"

app.run()

And I can see L'Haÿ-les-Roses without any error when I access localhost:5000. So maybe you should make your question more clearly.

Upvotes: 2

jmercouris
jmercouris

Reputation: 348

Did you make sure to put a declaration at the top of your source file indicating how it is supposed to be read?

# -*- coding:<some encoding> -*-

I believe in this case you would be looking for

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Upvotes: 0

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