Message3175

Jython 2.2.1 on java1.6.0_03
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>>> x = "%s" % u"\u00E4"
Traceback (innermost last):
 File "<console>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeError: ascii encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

'\u00E4' is latin-1 character 'ä'. I can workaround this problem like below:

>>> from org.python.core import codecs
>>> codecs.setDefaultEncoding('iso-8859-1')
>>> x = "%s" % u"\u00E4"
>>> assert x == u"\u00E4"

But if I now try to use e.g. Cyrillic characters I got an UnicodeError
again:

>>> x = "%s" % u"\u0420"
Traceback (innermost last):
 File "<console>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeError: latin-1 encoding error: ordinal not in range(256)

Note that using syntax u'%s' doesn't help:

Jython 2.2.1 on java1.6.0
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>>> u'%s' % u'\u00E4'        
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeError: ascii decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)


All this works both on CPython (I've tested only with 2.5) and Jython
2.2 (tested both on Linux and Windows). With Jython 2.2 there's no
need to setDefaultEncoding.