how to make format operator % work with unicode as expected

[Peter Pei]

For sure I can calculate the number of characters and do the padding myself, 
but what's the point, and i surely hope that python does it for me.
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"Peter Pei" <yantao at telus.com> wrote in message 
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>I am using things like "%-20s%-60s%-10s" in tkinter listbox to make it look 
>like a table, with mono sized font like lucie system. But this does not 
>work with data contains "Les misérables", because it is unicode, and one 
>byte is not neccessary one character. Now how can I resolve this issue?
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> My issue is "how to make format operator % work with unicode as expected", 
> and has nothing to do with tkinter. If I want to use a table widget or 
> something, I can. But that's not the question.