Hi Max. Many thanks for helping to realize where I was missing the point and making this clearer.
Regards, David Max Erickson wrote: > The encoding argument to unicode() is used to specify the encoding of the > string that you want to translate into unicode. The interpreter stores > unicode as unicode, it isn't encoded... > > >>>>unicode('\xbe','cp1252') > > u'\xbe' > >>>>unicode('\xbe','cp1252').encode('utf-8') > > '\xc2\xbe' > > > > max > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list