StringBuffer class from java was right solution - yours looses encoding, and in jython I was unable to get it back - in python it worked fine.
If you mean that Jython returned a string, when the inputs were unicode, then that can probably be fixed with:
result = u''.join(string_list)
(Python switches to the unicode version automatically if it finds any unicode strings in the supplied sequence. Jython may not do that - I'm not a Jython user though, so I'm not sure).
Cheers, Nick.
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