use Chinese characters with unicode version wxPython

wxPython Users
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I use wxPythonWIN32-2.4.2.4u-Py23.exe now.I can type Chinese characters in
wxStyledTextCtrl,and very thing is OK.But if I use settext method to set
Chinese characters in the controls,I must first decode the characters to
unicode,just like:

a='你好'
a.decode('mbcs')

u'\u4f60\u597d'

It's boring to decode every string,and is there a convenient way to do the
decoding task for me,such as a global setting?
BTW,how to know whether the wxpython is unicode version or not in an application?

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BruceKL WhoH:

>>> a='你好'
>>> a.decode('mbcs')
u'\u4f60\u597d'

It's boring to decode every string,and is there a convenient way to do the
decoding task for me,such as a global setting?

   You could try using unicode literals. I tend to use UTF-8 files rather
than mbcs as many editors (including those I write :wink: ) handle UTF-8 more
consistently and it is easy to convince Python to read in your file as
UTF-8:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
a='你好'
print a
print repr(a)
u = a.decode('utf-8')
print repr(u)
b=u'你好'
print repr(b)

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pythonw -u "t.py"

你好
'\xe4\xbd\xa0\xe5\xa5\xbd'
u'\u4f60\u597d'
u'\u4f60\u597d'

   However, UI strings should only rarely occur in source code. Haul them
out into a separate resource or string file where they can be localised.

   Neil