Multibyte Character Surport for Python

Martin v. Loewis martin at v.loewis.de
Sun May 12 11:04:04 EDT 2002


Gerhard Häring <gerhard at bigfoot.de> writes:

> > The counter-position to that is: what about existing code,
> 
> recode(1)

It's not as easy as that. If you have

print "Mäldung"

then, after recoding, this program likely won't work correctly anymore
- it will print garbage (or, as the Japanese say: mojibake)

Regards,
Martin



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