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I wrote small python script that had to print out text in French. French language contains different umlauts. As I used UTF-8 for my code source, I assumed that python is able to print texts in correct encodings. It doesn’t. Solution is to specify source code encoding and specify special characters as ‘\xNN’:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
for i in range(0, 255):
  print hex(i), ": ", chr(i)
  print "Edge of ice in Estonian is: j\x84\x84\x84\x84r"

Tested with python2.4 and WinXP

http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode

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