japanese encoding iso-2022-jp in python vs. perl

[Ryan Ginstrom]

> On Behalf Of kettle
>   I am rather new to python, and am currently struggling with some
> encoding issues.  I have some utf-8-encoded text which I need to
> encode as iso-2022-jp before sending it out to the world. I am using
> python's encode functions:
> --
>  var = var.encode("iso-2022-jp", "replace")
>  print var
> --

Possibly silly question: Is that a utf-8 string, or Unicode?

print unicode(var, "utf8").encode("iso-2022-jp")

On my computer (Japanese XP), your string round-trips between utf-8 and
iso-2022-jp without problems.

Another possible thing to look at is whether your Python output terminal can
print Japanese OK. Does it choke when printing the string as Unicode?

Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom