unicode and __repr__()

[Martin Drautzburg]

I am using repr() to pass arrays, dicts and combinations therof to
javascript as it already returns a valid javascript expression (a
string) right away. But for some reason it does not handle Umlaute
correctly and those characters finally appear as two strange characters
on the browser. I am using UTF-8 and assembling the string expression
manually works okay and the umlaute appear correctly in the browser (so
I could probably write my own serializer and it would work).

The commandline shows a difference too:

>>print "["+"'ö'"+"]"

['ö'] <-- this is openbracket quote oumlaut quote closebracket

>>print ["ö"].__repr__()

['\xf6']

It works okay for all other chars, just the umlaute seem to be a
problem.

How can I get __repr__() to handle the umlauter correctly, or is there
an easy way to postprocess the output ?

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

Martin Drautzburg schrieb:

I am using UTF-8 and assembling the string expression
manually works okay and the umlaute appear correctly in the browser (so
I could probably write my own serializer and it would work).

That's what you should do. Or you can use one that people have already
written, e.g.

http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/simplejson

Regards,
Martin