Michael Rudolf wrote: > 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?
Why is what? That string literals get reencoded into the source encoding? > So "unicode"-strings (as in u"string") are not really > unicode-, but utf8-strings? No. String literals, in 2.x, are not written with u"", and are stored in the source encoding. Above procedure applies to regular strings (see where the "*" goes in my original article). > Need citation plz. You really want a link to the source code implementing that? Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
