I am using repr() to pass arrays, dicts and combinations therof to javascript as it already returns a valid javascript expression (a string) right away. But for some reason it does not handle Umlaute correctly and those characters finally appear as two strange characters on the browser. I am using UTF-8 and assembling the string expression manually works okay and the umlaute appear correctly in the browser (so I could probably write my own serializer and it would work).
The commandline shows a difference too: >>> print "["+"'ö'"+"]" ['ö'] <-- this is openbracket quote oumlaut quote closebracket >>> print ["ö"].__repr__() ['\xf6'] It works okay for all other chars, just the umlaute seem to be a problem. How can I get __repr__() to handle the umlauter correctly, or is there an easy way to postprocess the output ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list