Jp Calderone wrote:
You don't have a string fetched from a database, in iso-8859-2, alas. That is the root of the problem you're having. What you have is a unicode string.
Yes, you're right :) I actually did have iso-8859-2 data, but, as I found out late last night, the data got converted to unicode along the way.
Thanks to all who replied so quickly :)
(Does anyone else feel that python's unicode handling is, well... suboptimal at least?)
Hmm. Not really. The only problem I've found with it is misguided attempt to "do the right thing" by implicitly encoding unicode strings, and this isn't so much of a problem once you figure things out, because you can always do things explicitly and avoid invoking the implicit behavior.
I'm learning that, the hard way :)
One thing that I always wanted to do (but probably can't be done?) is to set the default/implicit encoding to the one I'm using... I often have to deal with 8-bit encodings and rarely with unicode. Can it be done per-program?
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