On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 16:57 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am writing an app where site users upload a plaintext file full of > unstructured *unicode* data,
By the way -- I know you've already had your a-ha moment for this -- this statement isn't correct and may confuse you in the future. There's no such thing as uploading Unicode data. Network transfers are bytes on the wire. Which means the 21-bit Unicode quantities must be encoded somehow; there's no "natural" way to send such large values over a network. So there is an encoding involved, be it UTF-8 or UTF-16 or ISO-8859-1 or whatever. But don't get caught thinking that the data coming in from the client is "unicode data". It's not. It may be convertible to unicode, once you know the encoding of the original, but the difference is important. Regards, Malcolm -- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
