I would have thought that the answer would be: the default encoding
(duh!) But empirically this appears not to be the case:
>>> unicode('\xb5')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)
>>> u'\xb5'
u'\xb5'
>>> print u'\xb5'
µ
(That last character shows up as a micron sign despite the fact that my
default encoding is ascii, so it seems to me that that unicode string
must somehow have picked up a latin-1 encoding.)
rg
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