You didn't understand my question, but thanks any way. Yes, it is true that %s already support unicode, and I did not contradict that. But it counts the number of bytes instead of characters, and makes things like %-20s out of alignment. If you don't understand my assertion, please don't argue back and I am only interested in answers from those who are qualified. ==============================================================
"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:06:45 +0000, Peter Pei wrote: > >> I probably should mention that what I want is to make all parts of the >> string aligned, and look like table. I am not looking for other ways to >> make it table-alike, but only interested in making % work with unicode >> -counting characters not bytes... > > % already works with unicode. Just give it unicode arguments: > > >>>> print u"x y z %s 1 2 3" % u"Les misérables" > x y z Les misérables 1 2 3 > > > -- > Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
