Problem Regarding Handling of Unicode string

[joy99]

Dear Group,

I am using Python26 on WindowsXP with service pack2. My GUI is IDLE.
I am using Hindi resources and get nice output like:
एक
where I can use all the re functions and other functions without doing
any transliteration,etc.
I was trying to use Bengali but it is giving me output like:
'\xef\xbb\xbf\xe0\xa6\x85\xe0\xa6\xa8\xe0\xa7\x87\xe0\xa6\x95'
I wanted to see Bengali output as
অনেক
and I like to use all functions including re.
If any one can help me on that.
Best Regards,
Subhabrata.