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Author	loewis
Recipients	Christian.Clauss, ezio.melotti, loewis, r.david.murray
Date	2012-04-15.15:50:55
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Message-id	<1334505056.36.0.0441811962104.issue14587@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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In addition to R. David's remark, it also works fine in a German locale. In general, you cannot know whether the byte '\xe4' denotes 'ä' or some other letter. For example, in KOI8-R, it denotes Д, instead, which already is an upper-case letter. So either do setlocale at the start of your program, or (better) switch to Unicode strings. Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print u'ä'.upper() Ä

In addition to R. David's remark, it also works fine in a German locale. In general, you cannot know whether the byte '\xe4' denotes 'ä' or some other letter. For example, in KOI8-R, it denotes Д, instead, which already is an upper-case letter. So either do setlocale at the start of your program, or (better) switch to Unicode strings.

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print u'ä'.upper()
Ä

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Date	User	Action	Args
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