In the announcement for Python-2.3 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/287e94d9fe25388d?hl=en it says "raw_input(): can now return Unicode objects".
But I didn't see anything about this in Andrew Kuchling's "2.3 What's New", nor does the current python docs for raw_input() say anything about this. A test on a MS Windows system with a cp932 (japanese) default locale shows the object returned by raw_input() is a str() object containing cp932 encoded text. This remained true even when I set Python's default encoding to cp932 (in sitecustomize.py). So, does raw_input() ever return unicode objects and if so, under what conditions? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
