Can someone provide some help with unicode please.

[2inshix]

I'm using python 2.6.5 on windows vista and for some reason I'm having trouble trying to get python to recognize unicode input.( A friend tried the exact same code on linux and it works fine)

>>> verb=u"とぶ"
>>> verb[-1]==u"ぶ"
False
>>>

Does anyone have any idea what's happening here?
Isn't that supposed to yield True and not False?

(I also tried single quotes, but no luck)

Thank you.

[dwblas]

Since this is being done within the Python interpreter, it uses whatever encoding is set for the system. Obviously the default encoding can not handle these (16 bit?) characters. A Python program file can contain coding. Something like
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
You can print the default encoding with
sys.getdefaulte ncoding()
Beyond that, it depends on which version of Python you and your friend are using. A Google for "python unicode" will link to millions of explanations and examples.

[2inshix]

thank you dwblas,
I took me a while but I was able to find the way to handle
japanese unicode.
Inside a program, of course,
We need these lines at the top of the page: (This what you were talking about in your reply)

# -*- coding: cp932 -*-

import codecs

Once we have that, we need to add the character "u" before every unicode string like thus:

u'日本語'

And problem solve.
Thank you, again and happy new year!