[icej]

I use chinese language in "appuifw.query(u"你好","text")",but it is not nomail.
How i can use in　it?
THANKS!

[jfml]

I got this question also, anyone can help me?

Maybe most of friends on the board can not see chinese chars : "你好" yet, so they can not understand what I ask?

[jethro.fn]

Originally Posted by jfml

Maybe most of friends on the board can not see chinese chars : "你好" yet, so they can not understand what I ask?

I see them just fine...

PyS60 is Python v2.2. Python v2.2 only supports ISO 8859-1 ("ISO Latin-1") characters in Unicode string literals. For example, this works when the file is saved in ISO 8859-1 ("ö" is ISO-8859-1 character number 246 or 0xf6 in hex):

import appuifw
appuifw.note(u"Böö!", "info")

Now, the characters you gave as an example ("你好") cannot be represented in ISO 8859-1. After all, ISO 8859-1 is just an 8-bit character set, containing only 191 printable characters.

Unicode characters outside the eight bit ISO 8859-1 range must be represented as Unicode escapes in string literals. There are several posts about this in the forum:

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?t=101549
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...ad.php?t=83710


So, to print "你好", you must use u"\u4f60\u597d" in your program.

[jfml]

Originally Posted by jethro.fn

I see them just fine...

PyS60 is Python v2.2. Python v2.2 only supports ISO 8859-1 ("ISO Latin-1") characters in Unicode string literals. For example, this works when the file is saved in ISO 8859-1 ("ö" is ISO-8859-1 character number 246 or 0xf6 in hex):

import appuifw
appuifw.note(u"Böö!", "info")

Now, the characters you gave as an example ("你好") cannot be represented in ISO 8859-1. After all, ISO 8859-1 is just an 8-bit character set, containing only 191 printable characters.

Unicode characters outside the eight bit ISO 8859-1 range must be represented as Unicode escapes in string literals. There are several posts about this in the forum:

http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?t=101549
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...ad.php?t=83710


So, to print "你好", you must use u"\u4f60\u597d" in your program.

Hi, jethro.fn:
I have a low-level question : how can I get u"\u4f60\u597d" from "你好" in python? -_-|||
Thanks.

[jethro.fn]

Originally Posted by jfml

How can I get u"\u4f60\u597d" from "你好" in python?

I don't quite understand what you ask. I think you mean one of these two questions:

a) How was I able to determine which Unicode escapes represent the characters "你" and "好"?

or

b) Can you include Chinese characters as-is in the Python source code and if yes, how?


I'll answer both questions.

a) I copied the two chinese characters to a Unicode-aware text editor and saved to a file using UTF-8 encoding. Then, I read the file in a Python program on my PC, decoded the UTF-8 encoding and printed the resulting Unicode escapes, like this:

print repr(file("test.txt").read().decode("utf8"))

b) Officially, PyS60 (Python v2.2) does not support chinese characters (or any other characters outside ISO 8859-1 repertoire) in Unicode literals. However, as UTF-8 encoding uses bytes compatible with ISO 8859-1, you can save Python files in UTF-8 and then decode the UTF-8 encoding manually:

import appuifw
appuifw.note("你好".decode("utf-8"), "info")

Important things to note:

• This is an ugly hack. It will not work with Python v2.3 and later, unless an encoding of ISO 8859-1 is explicitly declared (see PEP 0263 for more info). Python v2.3 and later support UTF-8 encoding directly, making this hack obsolete.
• "你好" must not be a Unicode string, i.e. u"你好" will not work!
• Configure your editor to save UTF-8 files. No other encoding will work. Disable UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark) as it may prevent PyS60 from loading the file (not tested).