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