In article <499f397c.7030...@v.loewis.de>,
=?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=  <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> Yes, I know that.  But every concrete representation of a unicode string 
>> has to have an encoding associated with it, including unicode strings 
>> produced by the Python parser when it parses the ascii string "u'\xb5'"
>> 
>> My question is: what is that encoding?
>
>The internal representation is either UTF-16, or UTF-32; which one is
>a compile-time choice (i.e. when the Python interpreter is built).
Wait, I thought it was UCS-2 or UCS-4?  Or am I misremembering the
countless threads about the distinction between UTF and UCS?
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