Michael Rudolf wrote:
> Am 12.03.2010 21:56, schrieb Martin v. Loewis:
>> (*) If a source encoding was given, the source is actually recoded to
>> UTF-8, parsed, and then re-encoded back into the original encoding.
>
> Why is that?
Why is what? That string literals get reencoded into the source e
Michael Rudolf writes:
> Am 12.03.2010 21:56, schrieb Martin v. Loewis:
>> (*) If a source encoding was given, the source is actually recoded to
>> UTF-8, parsed, and then re-encoded back into the original encoding.
>
> Why is that? So "unicode"-strings (as in u"string") are not really
> unicode-
Am 12.03.2010 21:56, schrieb Martin v. Loewis:
(*) If a source encoding was given, the source is actually recoded to
UTF-8, parsed, and then re-encoded back into the original encoding.
Why is that? So "unicode"-strings (as in u"string") are not really
unicode-, but utf8-strings?
Need citatio
>> Can somebody explain what happens when I put non-ASCII characters into a
>> non-unicode string? My guess is that the result will depend on the
>> current encoding of my terminal.
>
> Exactly right.
To elaborate on the "what happens" part: the string that gets entered is
typically passed as a b
On 2010-03-12 06:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I know this is wrong, but I'm not sure just how wrong it is, or why.
Using Python 2.x:
s = "éâÄ"
print s
éâÄ
len(s)
6
list(s)
['\xc3', '\xa9', '\xc3', '\xa2', '\xc3', '\x84']
Can somebody explain what happens when I put non-ASCII characters i
