nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom stephen j turnbull wrote jim jewett writes realize traditional escape form wonder might better use character names instead hex character codes would require changing parser types string better roundtrip repr string parser understood unicode names quite time examples use 251 print ungreek small letter alpha α print ungreek capital letter alpha α print ungreek capital letter alpha tonos ά using names gets fairly verbose compared hex escapes though ungreek small letter alpha uu03b1 ungreek capital letter alpha uu0391 ungreek capital letter alpha tonos uu0386 cheers nick nick coghlan ncoghlangmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list python3000pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 204158 1000 python3000 displaying strings containing unicode escapes