Python and UTF-8

[Giorgi Lekishvili]

Just a related topic:

I have a similar problem:

I would like to make an online service enabling to recode latin letters
into the georgian alphabet (quite independent, one of the 14 existing
ones).

What I know are the the georgian encoding, see e.g.,
http://www.paratype.com/default.asp?page=/library/languag/codepages.html?ncoding=17

and the rules the latin characters are to be substituted by the georgian
ones.

What I do not know is the way I can forse Python to print the octals in
the right manner...

I am affraid that this question is not for this group... If so, please,
accept my appologoes:(

Best wishes,
Giorgi

Brandvik wrote:

> I'm making a small automated managing system for my website and I
> think I will go for Python and CGI. I have one question though: my
> website is in Norwegian and in valid XHTML. All characters need to be
> encoded in UTF-8. The way I'm currently doing it is that all articles
> go through me for formatting and validation. When switching to a CMS
> everybody with access to the system will be able to put articles on my
> website and this means that all kinds of formatting will be used. This
> will make the W3C validator choke and my site would not validate.
>
> Is it possible to make a python script that would change the character
> to UTF-8 no matter what the encoding of the input is? I have heard
> that Python has some great functions for Unicode formatting so this
> might be an easy and trivial task, but I'm new to Python so I really
> don't know...
>
> -Brandvik