Unicode string output

[Michael Hudson]

"Alexander Kostyrkin" <avkost66 at f4.dion.ne.jp> writes:

> Surprisingly printing a unicode string that contains a Japanese kanji
> character raises an exception
> For example
> 
>     print u"\u55f4"
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> 

Try

print u"\u55f4".encode('kanji')

though I don't know what should go in the place of 'kanji' - in fact,
I don't know if Python 2.0 shipped with any japanese codecs at all.

Not much help, I know...

Cheers,
M.

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