On 10/11/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is much clearer, and it explains why you need to mix arbitrary binary
> data with unicode text. Because of this mixing, as you have surmised,
> you're
> going to have to treat the file as a binary file in Python. In other
> words,
> don't open the file with the codecs module and do the encoding yourself,
> like so:
>
> mystring = u"Hello World"
> file = open( "somefile.txt", "wb" )
> file.write( struct.pack ( "I", len(mystring) ) )
> file.write( mystring.encode("utf-16-le") )
>
> (Note that I've guessed that you want little-endian byte-order in the
> encoding. Without that indication, encode() would put a byte order mark at
> the
> beginning of the string, which you probably don't want.)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Carsten.
>
>What if 'mystring' has been encoded to "utf-8"? mystring = u"Hello World" mystring = mystring.encode( "utf-8" ) So far the code above doesn't seem to work with this.
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