[Tutor] unicode problem
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Wed Sep 19 04:41:41 CEST 2007
Emad Nawfal wrote:
> *Hi All Tutors,*
> *I'm new and I'm trying to use unicode strings in my code (specifically
> Arabic), but I get this:*
>
> IDLE 1.2.1
>>>> text = ur'المصريون'
> Unsupported characters in input
This seems to be a problem with IDLE rather than Python itself. This
message:
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread543035.html
suggests editing one of the IDLE files to make it support unicode.
Alternately you might want to use the plain Python interpreter and a
text editor that supports arabic.
Kent
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