Hi Vivek, Thanks for the reply.
Yes I tried the same earlier itself. In that case problem is the input string decode with one encoding format and when it encode into a byte string using utf-8 the resulting string is not matching with the input string. Without specifying the encoding format also, while writing to any file it will take the default utf-8 encoding I think. [root] python i18n_test.py Étest <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Latin-1"?> <root> <output_string> Étest </output_string> </root> But the file content is as below. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><root><output_string>Ä test</output_string></root> Actually in the earlier part when we write to xml we got <c9> which was correct when we look into the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) international character set and hexadecimal. But here we got the hexa <c4> instead. Again for another character which can not be decoded using utf-8 it is giving the same value Ä which is interesting :) Apart from encoding what we have to take care in python coding to support internationalization, any document can be suggested for that. Thanks Dileep On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Vivek Puri <vpuri.soc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > How the internationalization works in Python 2.6. >> > > Internationalization is different topic. Here you are dealing with > character encoding. > > > You are actually on right track except this line: > > write_to_xml(input_string_unicode, encoding) >> > > change it to > > write_to_xml(input_string_unicode, 'utf-8') > > Basically once you have already converted the string to unicode > you should just write the output as unicode and utf8 is generally > more acceptable encoding. > > rgds > vivek > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Regards D.S. DIleep ♪♫ How you live one day is eventually how you live your life ♪♫ _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
