how to make format operator % work with unicode as expected

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

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 have the impression from your original post

  […] because it is unicode, and one byte is not neccessary one character.

that you confuse unicode and utf-8.  Are you sure you are qualified to ask
such a question in the first place!?  :-þ

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch