[FYI] Python 2.0 problems!!!

[Walid Shaari <shaari at arabeyes dot org>]

Dear Arabeyes,

I have installed mlterm 2.6.3, and was trying to print Arabic Strings
using python Interpreter for example just a simple letter as in:

	print u'\u0631\u0632\u0633'

It didn't seem to work at first as it was giving me this error :

	UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

Through trail and Errors, and some googling I managed to solve this with
the following code :

	import sys
	reload (sys)
	sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
	print u'\u0631\u0632\u0633'

it prints on the right hand side correctly as I wanted!

So where is my Question?

I don't really have a question yet, but noting the above could be added
to either the Arabic howto, or even by archiving it some-one else can
benefit.

Other than that, please advise me if there is a better Arabeyesiation
solution for a pythonist ;-)


Wa Salam
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