Jython: How to import escaped Unicode and export utf-8?

[Maurice Bauhahn]

I've been having some problems processing Unicode imports and exports.

My imports of escaped Unicode (u'\u1780' or '\u1780') end up in my lists
as:

["u'\\u1780'"]

and .write as u'\u1780'.

>From the command line I can get something useful by writing:

u'\u1780'.encode('utf-8')

but it does not appear to work within my jython script.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

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Maurice Bauhahn
United Kingdom

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