Unicode Problem

[Bard Aase]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Seid Mohammed <seidymam at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to python.
> I want to print Amharic character using the Python IDLE.
> here goes somple code
> ==============================================================
>>>> abebe = 'አበበ በሶ በላ'
>>>> abebe
> '\xe1\x8a\xa0\xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x89\xa0 \xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x88\xb6
> \xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x88\x8b'
>>>> print abebe
> አበበ በሶ በላ
>>>> abeba = ['አበበ','በሶ','በላ']
>>>> abeba
> ['\xe1\x8a\xa0\xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x89\xa0', '\xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x88\xb6',
> '\xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x88\x8b']
>>>> print abeba
> ['\xe1\x8a\xa0\xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x89\xa0', '\xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x88\xb6',
> '\xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x88\x8b']
>>>> len(abebe)
> 23
> ========================
> so my question is
> 1)why >>> abebe prints  '\xe1\x8a\xa0\xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x89\xa0
> \xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x88\xb6 \xe1\x89\xa0\xe1\x88\x8b' instead of አበበ በሶ
> በላ
> 2) why >>> print abeba don't print the expected አበበ በሶ በላ string


when you print strings from the interpreter using >>> abeba it will
escape any non-ascii characters.
if you, instead print it using >>> print abeba it will print the
proper characters, as long as your terminal supports it.


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