On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Νίκος <ni...@superhost.gr> wrote: > So you are also suggesting that what gesthostbyaddr() returns is not utf-8 > encoded too? > > What character is 0xb6 anyways?
It isn't. It's a byte. Bytes are not characters. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list