Re: japanese, unicode and python

Zachary Mason wrote:
> Hi.  Im writing an NLP application that manipulates japanese
> characters and downloads japanese web-pages, in particular results
> pages for japanese search engines.  Having a miserable time trying to
> make it work so far.  I have python 2.4.3, but the transformations
> that seem to work for european languages throw errors for japan. 
> Pointers to useful resources or better yet examples of manipulating
> japanese via python would be greatly appreciated.

This is a pretty unspecific question. What's wrong with doing stuff
like

py> u"Hello \u3068\u306f".encode("eucJP")
'Hello \xa4\xc8\xa4\xcf'

Regards,
Martin