Chinese and Japanese character support in python

Question

How to read correctly japanese and chinese characters. I\'m using python 2.5. Output is displayed as \"E:\\Test\\?????????\"

path = r\"E:\\Test\         


        

Answer 1

You should force the string to be a unicode object like

path = ur"E:\Test\は最高のプログラマ"

Docs on string literals relevant to 2.5 are located here

Edit: I'm not positive on if the object is a unicode in 2.5 but the docs do state that \uXXXX[XXXX] will be processed and the the string will be "a Unicode string".