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Hi all,
I am trying to learn unicode relative to Python, but to be honest, I'm floundering a whole lot.
I have never had so much trouble with anything before, but to put it simply, I just don't get it.
For example, I want to use Hebrew words in my Python program.
But no matter what I do,
I get the error about unsupported characters.
So is there anything I can do to get Python to support those characters?
Please keep it simple, 'cause my brain isn't up to it.

Thanks

Iacobus

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Python, being a rather international programming language has unicode handling built in, but your much more local operating system might not be so international and rudely stop after the first 256 characters.

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To vegaseat,

Thanks for the reply. :)

No, my OS is quite capable of handling languages. I can write in Hebrew with no problems, and view many different language websites.

My problem is, I just don't know how to write Hebrew using the Python prgram. :cry:

Iacobus

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I am sorry that I don't know any Hebrew characters, but I have done this little example for Spanish characters. Try something similar with the values for Hebrew characters.

# here I used the unicode \uxxxx where xxxx is a four digit
# hexadecimal number to put in two typical Spanish characters
# 00bf = ¿  and  00f3 = ó  that are not on my US keyboard
a = u'\u00bfC\u00f3mo es usted?'
print a
# result is ¿Cómo es usted?

When I exceed \u00ff I just get a question mark character, no error. Let me know how you fare with this.
Shalom!

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Mucho gracias vegaseat,

I will try later today after things settle down here a bit.

I'll post back to let you know how it came out.

Thanks!!!!

Iacobus

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Well I'm back sooner than I expected and vegaseat, you have solved my problem. :D

I can now effectively (I hope) write the needed characters. The secret was the 2nd "U". I was only entering one of them and not entering the second one in the hex number. Dum-de-dum-dum! (Or should that be "dumb-de-dumb-dumb"?):rolleyes:

I am grateful for you time and consideration, for sure. ;)

Iacobus

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