More Unicode, and more gor Google to fix

Once I finally got teh Unicode sorted between BeautifulSoup and Google App Engine Datastore, with some help from this:

http://khaidoan.wikidot.com/google-app-engine-datastore

...I was rather surprised to find out that Google itself still have bugs to sort out... The web based Datastore viewer of the SDK (http://localhost:8080/_ah/admin/datastore) can not display non ASCII charcters! ...and it is a rather old bug:

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=502

Well, well...
It works fine in the production though - from the DataViewer in the Dashboard.

ASCII, ... Unicode and UTF-8

I was playing with Google Translate (and its API) for my sandbox project - which obviously means I deal with characters not fitting into ASCII.

After just sorting it out by trial and error for some time, and found this presentation:

http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/

Absolutely brilliant! Why is that not on Python's own website?
Many thanks to the author Kumar McMillan.

PS. There are more useful learning on farmdev.