[Python-Dev] Re: Regression in unicodestr.encode()?

[François Pinard]

[Barry A. Warsaw]

> My very limited Tim-enlightened understanding is that encoding a string
> to UTF-8 should never produce a string with NULs.

Besides the fact that NULs encode to themselves.  In fact, 0-127 encode to
themselves, and are never produced otherwise.  Also, 254 and 255 are never
produced, I heard that some use these to escape out within an UTF-8 string.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard