nn wrote:
To be more informative I am both writing text and binary data together. That is I am embedding text from another source into stream that uses non-ascii characters as "control" characters. In Python2 I was processing it mostly as text containing a few "funny" characters.
OK. Then you need to be writing arrays of bytes, not strings.
Encoding is your problem. This has nothing to do with Unicode.
John Nagle
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