On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org> wrote: > say I have an indic (tamil) string like நான். This is actually > represented by the following: > 0x0ba8,0x0bbe,0x0ba9,0x0bcd.
Under which encoding? > How can I convert the above string into > these characters - or at least into base 10 integers? If you use utf-8 encoding, it goes like this: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- str1 = u"நான்" print repr(str1.encode('utf-8')) # output: '\xe0\xae\xa8\xe0\xae\xbe\xe0\xae\xa9\xe0\xaf\x8d' You can try/test things here: http://uthcode.codepad.org/oSPpyrzs -- Senthil _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers