[Zope] How to display unicode character given its code

[Itai Tavor]

On 26/07/2005, at Tue 26/07 4:12AM, Dieter Maurer wrote:

> Itai Tavor wrote at 2005-7-25 20:21 +1000:
>
>> This is a bit OT but this list is the best place I know to ask it :)
>>
>> I have a form which uses UTF-8, the text entered in the form then has
>> to be converted to iso-2022-jp. If any character is entered that
>> isn't valid for iso-2022-jp I get:
>>
>> UnicodeError: ISO-2022-JP encoding error: invalid character \u2013
>>
>> What I need to do is display the offending character in the error
>> message.
>>
>
> I what encoding?
>
> Obviously, you cannot use "ISO-2022-JP".
> If you can handle "UTF-8", then use "unicode('\u2013').encode 
> ('utf-8')".
>
> You can also use the "xmlcharref" error parameter for your
> "encode(iso-2022-hp)". In this case, your character would
> become an XML character reference. They have the form
> "–". Browsers usually are able to display them.

Thanks, Dieter.

Couldn't get it to work, though... not sure why: unicode('\u2013')  
returns u'\\u2013', which is useless.

Just found the unichr method though. unichr(int('2013', 16)) does the  
job.

Itai