Python script utf8 encoding

When scripting Vim using Python, the following error may occur when passing a utf-8 encoded string from Python to Vim:

:py print u'echo "\u2026"'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2026' in
position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

The following example shows how to avoid the problem:

python << EOS
uniStr = u"\u2026"
str = uniStr.encode( vim.eval("&encoding") )
print str
EOS

Or, the following one liner:

:py print u"\u2026".encode( vim.eval("&encoding") )

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• Vim mailing list origin of this tip: see discussion for more information

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