nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom terry reedy wrote think standard python somehow two options escape everything ascii unambuguity old display systems escape nothing potentially printable leaving partially capable systems fare inbetween solutions ultimately programmer system specific repr made work martin suggests ie escape unprintable stuff unicode_escape codec used fairly easily restore 2x escape everything nonascii behaviour cheers nick nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 181201 1000 python3000 displaying strings containing unicode escapes