unicode and socket

[Irmen de Jong]

Irmen de Jong wrote:
> aurora wrote:
> 
>> You could not. Unicode is an abstract data type. It must be encoded 
>> into  octets in order to send via socket. And the other end must 
>> decode the  octets to retrieve the unicode string. Needless to say the 
>> encoding scheme  must be consistent and understood by both ends.
> 
> 
> So use pickle.
> 
> --Irmen

Well, on second thought: don't use pickle.
If all you want to transfer is unicode strings (or normal strings)
it's safer to just encode them to, say, UTF-8, transfer
that octet stream across, and on the other side, decode the
UTF-8 octets back into a unicode string.


--Irmen