On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:05 PM, Fletcher Johnson wrote: > 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.
Try it and see! One test case is worth a thousand words. And Python has an interactive interpreter. :-) - Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
