On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:32:40 +0000, Peter Pei wrote: > 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.
I understand your assertion. I think it is nonsense. >>> def test(): ... print "12345678901234567890 +" ... print "%-20s +" % "Plain ASCII" ... print u"%-20s +" % u"Les misérables-\320\321\322" ... >>> test() 12345678901234567890 + Plain ASCII + Les misérables-ÐÑÒ + -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list