char 128? no... 256

[Erik Max Francis]

Afanasiy wrote:

> Ok then what is 8 bits? That's not unicode. I call it extended ascii,
> but I don't really care what it's actually called, I know it as a
> char.

It's "eight bits."

> And I think it's odd that 8 bit char's would need to be converted.

The point is, if you are receiving that error, what you have is a
_Unicode string object_.  You _don't_ have a normal string object that
just happens to have the MSB set in some of the characters.  You have a
Unicode string, and you're trying to convert it to a normal string.

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