How to display UNICODE text in idle?

[Neil Hodgson]

> I want to write a python program in IDLE, but idle cannot display
> other language text. How to do it?

   It works for me with the version of IDLE which came with the alpha Python
1.6a2. Hope the characters survive the news handlers:

Python 1.6a2 (#0, Apr  6 2000, 11:45:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
IDLE 0.6 -- press F1 for help
>>> print "?a??"
?a??
>>>

   Neil