A Unicode problem -HELP

[manstey]

Hi Martin,

Thanks very much. Your def comma_separated_utf8(items): approach raises
an exception in codecs.py, so I tried  = u", ".join(word_info + parse +
gloss), which works perfectly. So I want to understand exactly why this
works. word_info and parse and gloss are all tuples. does str convert
the three into an ascii string? but the join method retains their
unicode status.

In the text file, the unicode characters appear perfectly, so I'm very
happy.

cheers
matthew