>>>> print type(stuff), 'stuff', stuff.encode() >>>>This prints: >>>> >>>> <type 'unicode'> stuff [NUL]C[NUL]o[NUL]p[NUL]y[NUL]r[NUL]i[NUL]g[NUL] >> >> >>> I don't understand what you tried to accomplish here. >> >> >> That's evidence of what I failed to accomplish. My expected results >> was to print the word "Copyright" and whatever other strings are >> present in the font, with no intervening NUL characters.
> Oh but why print type(stuff) To make sure it really came back as <type 'unicode'>, as opposed to <type 'str'>. > or 'stuff'? Personal tradition :^) The outcome of the project was this: Firefox would not display bold text correctly when I selected "Futura Lt BT" as my font (it would display a stretched version of the Light font, even though I also had "Futura Bold BT" in my fonts folder). After some googling, I figured out that (if I understand it right) Windows groups plain fonts and bold fonts together based on their internal family name, which turned out to be different between the two fonts. futural.ttf Font Family name : Futura Lt BT Font Subfamily name : Light futurab.ttf Font Family name : Futura Md BT Font Subfamily name : Bold So as best I can tell, the d*mb*asses that made Word Perfect Office 2002 (pre-loaded on my computer when I bought it) failed to give me the entire font family. Alan _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
