Title page doesn't work on special characters - Python

Question

I am trying to capitalize on a lot of strings and some of them start with utf-8 characters. The problem is they don't capitalize!

mystring = 'lucas'
mystring.capitalize() # returns 'Lucas'

mytring = 'æthelred'
mystring.capitalize() # returns 'æthelred'

It is the same with vowels containing `` ^ ¨ and symbols ð, þ, etc. What should I do to solve this problem?

I don't actually have access to the string, I get them somewhere else, in a text file ...

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Leandro lyra Dec 31. 15 at 16:27

2 answers

If you are using Python 2 this will work as well. At the top of your file put:

from __future__ import unicode_literals

This will force Python 3 to behave like strings, making them unicode the default.

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Matt smith Dec 31. 15 at 17:39

Kasramvd · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-31T16:31:20+0000

You omit u

. the string must be defined as unicode for python!

>>> mytring = u"æthelred"
>>> print mytring.capitalize()
Æthelred

As in python 3

, you don't need the default unicode strings u

.

>>> "æthelred".capitalize()
'Æthelred'