I recently wrote some code that prints information about the 'jukugo' used in Japanese newspaper articles. A jukugo is a Japanese word written with at least 2 kanji. An example of a 2-kanji jukugo is 危機 (kiki -- crisis). I found that I could not use my usual IDE to render the Japanese correctly in either the code or the output. But IDLE (version 3.1.2; Windows Vista) does a beautiful job! See screen shots <http://www.rcblue.com/Misc/Japanese_in_code_with_Courier_New_in_IDLE.jpg> and <http://www.rcblue.com/Misc/Japanese_output_with_Courier_New_in_IDLE.jpg>. (The whole script plus output is at <http://tutoree7.pastebin.com/xLsRfTSQ>.)
I'd like to know how the IDLE developers did this. How can IDLE not have a problem with Japanese using Courier New, Calibri, even Fences or Windings! (For Wingdings, see <http://www.rcblue.com/Misc/Japanese_and_Wingdings.jpg>.) Thanks, Dick Moores -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
