how to use unicode?

Mon Jan 27 01:17:53 EST 2003

gfu <gfu at public.nn.gx.cn> wrote in news:mailman.1043642087.32576.python-
list at python.org:

> hello:
>      how to use unicode to show chinese? 
>      run python.exe in w2k,Python 2.2.2:
>     >>> u'ÐÐ¶¼'
>       u'\xcb\xc6\xcd\xf8\xd2\xb3'
> 
>      run IDLE in w2k,Python 2.2.2:
>     >>> 'ÐÐ¶¼'
>      UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>      
>      the "ÐÐ¶¼" is a chinese.

You need the u prefix as you saw, now try printing it..

Lao