On Jun 8, 2:24 am, Leo Kislov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 7, 5:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > I am trying to wrap a japanese text in Python, by the following code. > > > if len(message) > 54: > > message = message.decode("UTF8") > > strlist = textwrap.wrap(message,54) > > > After this I am wirting it to you a CAD Software window. While > > displaying in this window some Japanese characters at the end of the > > line & some at the begining of the line are not displayed at all. > > Meaning the text wrapping is not happening correctly. > > > Can any body please help me out in resolving this problem. > > First of all you should move message.decode('utf-8') call out of "if" > and you don't need "if" anyway because if the line is less than 54 > textwrap won't touch it: > > message = message.decode('utf-8') > strlist = textwrap.wrap(message, 54) > > I don't know Japanese but the following example *seems* to work fine > for me: > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > sample=u""" > """ > > import textwrap > for line in textwrap.wrap(sample, 6): > print line > -------------------------------- > Result:
Oh, my. IE7 and/or Google groups ate my Japanese text :( But I hope you've got the idea: try to work on a small example python program in a unicode-friendly IDE like for example IDLE. > Can you post a short example that clearly demonstrates the problem? This question is still valid. -- Leo. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list