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Hi,

When I try and format output when there are accented characters the
output does not look right.

e.g.

27 Angie Dickons                       67,638
28 Anne M=C3=89RESSE                 64,825

So the strings containing accented characters print one less than
those that don't.

I've tried both:

    print '{0:2} {1:25} {2} '.format( cnt, nam[num].encode('utf-8'),
steps[ind1])
    print "%3d %-25s %-7s" % ( cnt, nam[num].encode('utf-8'), steps[ind1])

I've searched but I can't see a solution..

I guess it is the way I'm printing nam[num].encode('utf-8') perhaps I
have to convert it first ?

Can someone please help.

Thanks

--=20
Jerry Rocteur

Jerry@rocteur.com