If I create a new Unicode object u'\x82\xb1\x82\xea\x82\xcd' how does this creation process interpret the bytes in the byte string? Does it assume the string represents a utf-16 encoding, at utf-8 encoding, etc...?
For reference the string is これは in the 'shift-jis' encoding. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
