Michael Rudolf <spamfres...@ch3ka.de> writes: > Am 12.03.2010 21:56, schrieb Martin v. Loewis: >> (*) If a source encoding was given, the source is actually recoded to >> UTF-8, parsed, and then re-encoded back into the original encoding. > > Why is that? So "unicode"-strings (as in u"string") are not really > unicode-, but utf8-strings?
utf8 is a Unicode *encoding*. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
