problem with cjkcodecs on Mandrake linux

[Anthony Liu]

The superuser of the Mandrake system in my lab
installed cjkcodecs for python.

But there is a problem.

I can encode english alphabets like 'a', 'b', 'c' or
'abc' like so:

s = 'abc'
s = unicode(s, 'gbk')
print s # prints 'abc'

but when I tried to encode Chinese strings, I have a
problem.

For example, to run the following script:

s = "蟒蛇"  # 2 Chinese characters for
python
s = unicode(s, 'gbk')
print s

I get the following error message.

[antony at ancho tmp]$ python snake.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "snake.py", line 6, in ?
    print a
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode
characters in position 0-1: ordinal not in range(256)
[antony at ancho tmp]$ 

What is the problem please?


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