Rami Chowdhury wrote: >> I am using primarily UTF-8 based strings, like Hindi or Bengali. Can I >> use Python to help me in this regard? > > I can say from experience that Python on Windows (at least, Python 2.5 > on 32-bit Vista) works perfectly well with UTF-8 files containing > Bangla. I have had trouble with working with the data in IDLE, however, > which seems to prefer ASCII by default.
Defaults almost never work for encodings. You have to be explicit: add an encoding declaration to the top of your source file if you use encoded literal strings in your code; use the codecs module with a suitable encoding to read encoded text files, and use an XML parser when reading XML. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
