Resources to help you learn how to handle Unicode in your Python programs:

General Unicode Resources

• [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know about Unicode] - short intro to Unicode

Python-Specific Resources

Standard Reference

Search the Python reference for:

• unichr builtin
• string handling - example: u'Hello\u0020World !'

• [http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-unicodedata.html unicodedata] module

• regular expressions - see the (?u) flag, and the re.UNICODE constant

• exceptions - UnicodeEncodeError

Tutorials

• [http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html Dive Into Python: Unicode]

• [http://www.egenix.com/files/python/Unicode-EPC2002-Talk.pdf Python and Unicode] (pdf talk) He also has a [http://www.reportlab.com/i18n/python_unicode_tutorial.html brief tutorial].

• [http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/index.html Unicode for Programmers] - Java and Python info

• [http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-objects.htm Python Unicode Objects] - brief notes

Sample Code

• [http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1581.html HTMLifying and UnHTMLifying] - see atomef.py

Pitfalls

• ["StrIsNotAString"]

• ["PrintFails"]

• ["ShellRedirectionFails"]

• ["UnicodeEncodeError"]

• ["DefaultEncoding"]