On Jun 23, 12:04 pm, "Carsten Haese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:10:19 -0000, Genie T wrote > > > Hi, > > > can anybody tell me whether these two expressions have the same > > meanings? > > > s = u'<unicode string here>' > > s1 = s.encode('utf-8') > > > AND > > > s1 = unicode(s,'utf-8') > > Considering that one works and the other doesn't, no, they don't have the same > meaning. > > The unicode() function decodes a given byte string into a unicode object, but > you're giving it a unicode object. What are you actually trying to achieve? > > If you're just trying to get a handle on the topic, I recommend you > readhttp://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode > > HTH, > > -- > Carsten Haesehttp://informixdb.sourceforge.net
thanks for the link, i'm trying to understand more about this unicode handling :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list