Pickling russian strings

[Martin v. Loewis]

ypoi at spray.se (DR) writes:

> I have some lists whith russian text I need to save to file. When
> saving with pickle's dump() method the encoding gets f-ked up (\u0444
> becomes \xe4 for example). I need to find a way to save data
> structures containing russian text with pickle or something similar.
> Please help me, someone!

As Robert explains: pickle does not do such things. If you see Unicode
objects being changed, it must have a different cause. Can you post
some source code that demonstrates the problem?

Regards,
Martin