Mike Dee wrote: > [snip wrestling with byte strings] In addition to Martin reply I just want to add two notes: 1. Interactive console in python 2.3 has a bug that was fixed in 2.4, so you can't enter unicode strings at the prompt:
C:\Python24>python.exe >>> a=u'ÐÐÐ' >>> a u'\u0430\u0431\u0432' C:\Python23>python.exe >>> a=u'ÐÐÐ' >>> a u'\xa0\xa1\xa2' in 2.3 you need to use decode method to get unicode strings: >>> import sys >>> a2='ÐÐÐ'.decode(sys.stdin.encoding) >>> a2 u'\u0430\u0431\u0432' 2. Suse ships buggy build of python so title doesn't work properly, see discussion http://tinyurl.com/4k3au >>> print aoumlautxyz.title() ÃÃXyz You will need to call setlocale to help you: >>> import locale >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,'') 'en_US.utf-8' >>> print aoumlautxyz.title() ÃÃxyz Serge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
