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UnKnown X · Feb 10th, 2007, 5:17 AM

That's not what I was asking for. I already know that and use it extensively in my programme, though I'm looking for a way to get unicode input from the user.

On a related note, though, I tried using some Cyrillic characters (not even outputting them on the display, simply storing them in a variable), let's say Б (or \ud091), but my IDE, ActivePython gives me the following error:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-5: truncated \uXXXX escape

Surely, this shouldn't happen. It won't let me run the programme, even. It just displays this when I run that error-check on the .py file.

Edit: I found the problem with the Cyrillic characters, which was a fairly silly typo.

Feb 10th, 2007, 5:17 AM	#3
UnKnown X Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Sandvika, Norway Posts: 114 Rep Power: 0	That's not what I was asking for. I already know that and use it extensively in my programme, though I'm looking for a way to get unicode input from the user. On a related note, though, I tried using some Cyrillic characters (not even outputting them on the display, simply storing them in a variable), let's say Б (or \ud091), but my IDE, ActivePython gives me the following error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-5: truncated \uXXXX escape Surely, this shouldn't happen. It won't let me run the programme, even. It just displays this when I run that error-check on the .py file. Edit: I found the problem with the Cyrillic characters, which was a fairly silly typo. Last edited by UnKnown X; Feb 10th, 2007 at 6:02 AM.