Unicode Hell

[Stuart]

I'm trying to do something seemingly easy yet it is proving incredibly
frustrating. Perhaps it is due to my relatively new acquaintance with
Python. In a web environment (ASP with python scripting) I have one form
posting information to another form. The contents of the posting variable
(lets call it cVal1 for simplicity) is non ascii characters, lets say éêëìû
for example.



On the second page a simple:



cVal1 = Request("cVal1 ")

Response.Write(cVal1)



Writes the values to the screen correctly.



What I really want to do is replace a field place holder with those values.



So if we have a string



cReplaceString = "I want to replace #here#"



I'd like to replace the #here# with the values of a (or éêëìû)



Please help



Regards



Stuart

 

[Peter Maas]

What I really want to do is replace a field place holder with those values.
So if we have a string
cReplaceString = "I want to replace #here#"
I'd like to replace the #here# with the values of a (or Óçâß)

# assign a unicode literal (u"...") to cReplaceString:
cReplaceString = u"I want to replace #here#"
cNewString = cReplaceString.replace(u"#here#",u"Óçâß")

Perhaps you have to ecncode the chineses characters like \uabcd
whith a,b,c,d as hex digits. My editor has problems with chinese
characters.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas