Foreign Characters Not Supported

I an entertaining the idea of writing a program that will contain both English and Hebrew characters.

A quick test revealed "...characters not supported." Obvious to the most casual observer they are talking about the Hebrew characters.

I am new to Python and am wondering if there is a way around this hurdle?

Thanks

James

Python has extensive support for unicode, so there should not be a problem using hebrew.

Here is a tutorial on Python Internationalization:

http://www.reportlab.com/i18n/pytho...e_tutorial.html

You can probably find others if you google hard enough.

Dave - The Developers' Coach

Many thanks.

I have been reading so much I plain well forgot about unicode. What a dunce I am. Thanks for the answer and for the link.

James

I'm back again, having made absolutely zero progress.

When I attempt to program a Hebrew word, I get an exception, "Unsupported charcters in input".

My question then is:

What do I do to get Python to support Hebrew characters?

I've tried to understand unicode, but can't seem to grasp it.

I've googled till I can't google any more.

I need some simple explanation, if possible.