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Newbie disclaimer: I am new to Python and just started using IDLE to play around with Python.

My problem is the interpreter does not recognize strings, whether enclosed in ¨¨ or ´´.

I configured IDLE to use UTF-8. but it does not seem to be an IDLE issue. What I tried is to test this string in the interpreter directly. It does not work.

print ¨Money¨

to the interpereter returns

File "<stdin>", line 1 print ¨Money¨ ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Can someone help me with this? I am using a new laptop running fedora15 with the international keyboard layout and python version is 2.7.1.

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    Well if it was Python 3, I'd say put parentheses around the string, but not sure why 2 isn't handling it. Commented Oct 1, 2011 at 6:08
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    Those quote characters don't look right. Retype them in your interpreter, using the keyboard. Commented Oct 1, 2011 at 6:10

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You need to use "" or '', not ¨¨, ´´ or any other fancy characters.

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+1 for answering first while I was looking up the actual characters with a hex dump. The OP was using U+00A8 DIAERESIS and U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT.
ok. I got the problem. On this brand new QWERTY laptop keyboard with US international layout that i use,attempting to type the double quote on the keyboard with just Shift key gives me ¨¨, the DIARESIS you have specified. Shift+Alt+double quotes gives me the right character. thanks to all of you.
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Just switch your keyboard setting between normal US English for coding, and US English International for texting, that worked for me.

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