[Pythonmac-SIG] Accented characters

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I'm new to python and I need to process some text written in French 
with various accented characters.

I have read about the locale module and codecs and anything else I 
could find to no avail.

In IDLE I can't even type an accented character.

In Terminal, I must activite "escape non ASCII characters" in the 
Emulation setting.

If I write a script that writes a file to disk I never get anything 
good either.

I have tried various combinations of locale.setlocale, and also 
various combinations of unicode and locale settings for the re 
module. Nothing works.

I need:
1/ to be able to sort correctly
2/ to be able to have regular expressions recognize word boundaries correctly.

I'm using Mac OSX with the preinstalled Python 2.3.3. I either use 
IDLE or BBEdit and the Terminal.

Thanks for any help.

Ellen
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