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

[Maurice Bauhahn]

My problem is importing such escapes from a file. Can you do that? I note also that
you are using version 2.0 which is not documented to have the two hex character
limitation.

Cheers,

Maurice

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Maurice Bauhahn wrote:
> > Hence, it appears that not only is it not possible to import \uXXXX, it is also
> > appears impossible to handle any Unicode escape above the first 256
> > characters...effectively ignoring Unicode altogether??? Is there something I am
> > missing?
>
> from the python documentation:
>
>     \uxxxx - Character with 16-bit hex value xxxx (Unicode only)
>     \Uxxxxxxxx - Character with 32-bit hex value xxxxxxxx (Unicode only)
>     \xhh - ASCII character with hex value hh
>
> in my copy of jython, given a sample.py file containing
>
>     a = u"\u1780"
>
> on a single line, I get:
>
>     Jython 2.0 on java1.1.4
>     >>> execfile("sample.py")
>     >>> a
>     u'\u1780'
>     >>> len(a)
>     1
>     >>> a.encode("utf-8")
>     '\341\236\200'
>     >>> u"\u1780".encode("utf-8")
>     '\341\236\200'
>
> which is exactly what it's supposed to be (and exactly
> what CPython 2.0 does)
>
> Cheers /F

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