On 2010-03-12 06:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I know this is wrong, but I'm not sure just how wrong it is, or why.
Using Python 2.x:
s = "éâÄ"
print s
éâÄ
len(s)
6
list(s)
['\xc3', '\xa9', '\xc3', '\xa2', '\xc3', '\x84']
Can somebody explain what happens when I put non-ASCII characters into a
non-unicode string? My guess is that the result will depend on the
current encoding of my terminal.
Exactly right.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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