I am using Windows XP professional version 2002 Service pack 3. AMD Athlon(TM)XP 2400+ 2.00GHz 992MB RAM.

I have downloaded Windows x86 MSI Instaler Python 3.0 (sig) (r30:67507, Dec 3 2008, 20:14:27) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables.
System Variables -> Path -> edit C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Python30

start -> programs -> python 3.0 -> IDLE(Python GUI)

-> IDLE 3.0 -> File -> New Window -> i wrote “print(‘ğüşçöı’)” without qutes
-> File -> Save -> Python30 -> i gave file name “d2.py” without qutes
-> and Run -> Run Module -> it gives error “invalid character in identifier”

then i tried second method

start -> run -> cmd -> d2.py and enter it gives the error

C:\>d2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Python30\d2.py”, line 4, in
print(‘\u011fü\u015fçö\u0131′)
File “C:\Python30\lib\io.py”, line 1491, in write
b = encoder.encode(s)
File “C:\Python30\lib\encodings\cp437.py”, line 19, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character ‘\u011f’ in position
0: character maps to

C:\>

But if i write in Phyton Shell -> >>> print(‘ğüşçöı’) and pressed enter
-> gives ‘ğüşçöı’ it works.

and I tried below characters in Phyton Shell -> >>> print(‘?????????)
but if I firstli write in notepad and copied pasted it works
print(‘ḍḥḫṣṭẕāīū’)

What is wrong?

I didn’t know that — thanks for pointing it out!

@Jack

Also good to know. In the only C extensions I’ve written, I just required that all strings be passed in as Unicode. “et” is an elegant alternative.

I also think it’s worth noting that, if you have any C extensions you’re writing you can use the “et” format arguments in your PyArg_ParseTuple (or equivalent) to keep Python from attempting to encode everything you pass to it to ascii.

This also means that you have to PyMem_Free all of the strings you get, however.