Swedish characters in Python strings

[Martin v. Loewis]

urban.anjar at hik.se (Urban Anjar) writes:

> I think Python should take care of that kind of conversions
> behind the scene...

Python cannot really do this, both because it is not possible, and
because it would break tons of existing code.

> By the way, is there a method to test strings for how they are
> coded before messing with them in a program.

That's part of the problem: this is not possible. If it were possible,
Python would be doing it behind the scene.

Regards,
Martin