Ricky, I found your message now, because I also would encounter the same problem.
> A few unicode tutorials on the web show that it's possible to type > unicode characters into the IDLE gui... > > However, when i type korean (hangul) characters it complains: > > Unsupported Characters in input > > I don't have a great understanding of unicode, but when I use a UTF-8 > source file with korean strings in, and run it as a CGI script it > works fine. > > I'm using python 2.3.3 on win XP. > > Any tutorials / info anyone could point me to? Thanks... Now I am using Hangle with Japaese. What I did is as follow. My Python is now 2.4.3 1) open the IOBinding.py in $python/idellib 2) see the block just after line35, and insert one line. ---- encoding = "ascii" # line 35 if sys.platform == 'win32': # On Windows, we could use "mbcs". However, to give the user # a portable encoding name, we need to find the code page try: encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] codecs.lookup(encoding) except LookupError: pass encoding = 'utf-8' ## <- this line force the encoding to utf-8. ----- 3) save the file and quit Idle and reopen Idle. I hope my experience will solve your problem. (It has passed 2 years and more, so you might already solve the problem. I you know better solution, please inform me.) kazuo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list