* "Martin v. Löwis" (Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:15:08 +0100) > > 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).
I'm pretty much sure it is UCS-2 or UCS-4. (Yes, I know there is only a slight difference to UTF-16/UTF-32). Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
