Op Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:02:26 -0800, schreef coldpizza: > It is funny that encode() and decode() omit the name of the other > encoding (Unicode ucs2?), which makes it far less readable than a > s.recode('ucs2','utf8').
The internal encoding/representation of a "string" of Unicode characters is considered an implementation detail and is in fact not always the same (e.g. a cpython build parameter selects UCS2 or UCS4, and it might be something else in other implementations). See the 'Py_UNICODE' paragraph in: <http://docs.python.org/api/unicodeObjects.html> -- JanC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list