Turkish character encoding

Question

I try to create new sentence from different list items. Its giving error when I print it by unicode. I can print it normally (without unicode). When I try to post it to the web site its rasing same error. I tought that if I can fix it with unicode, it will work when ı post it to the website.

p=['Bu', 'Şu']
k=['yazı','makale']
t=['hoş','ilgiç']
connect='%s %s %s'%(p[randint(0,len(p)-1)],k[randint(0,len(k)-1)],t[randint(0,len(t)-1)])
print unicode(connect)

And the output is :
Error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Solution

First of all you should put at the top of your script # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- to be able to use non-ascii characters in your script. Also while printing decode str to unicode will solve your problem.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from random import randint

p=['Bu', 'şu']
k=['yazı','makale']
t=['hoş','ilginç']
connect='%s %s %s'%(p[randint(0,len(p)-1)],k[randint(0,len(k)-1)],t[randint(0,len(t)-1)])
print connect.decode('utf-8')

Comments

[Alkindus]

Turkish is not Latin-1. We use UTF-8 for encoding websites. Adding header doesn't effect result. Its necessary when you use Turkish Chars in coding.

[Phani]

I thought you did use the Turkish characters when assigning the lists p, k and t.

[Mark Tolonen]

It works if you have a UTF-8 terminal. It won't work on typical Windows command prompt.