unicode converting

[Maxim Kasimov]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> Maxim Kasimov wrote:
> 
> 
>>there are a few questions i can find answer in manual:
>>1. how to define which is internal encoding of python unicode strings
>>(UTF-8, UTF-16 ...) 
> 
> 
> It shouldn't be your concern - but you can specify it using " ./configure
> --enable-unicode=ucs2" or --enable-unicode=ucs4. You can't set it to utf-8
> or utf-16.
is that means that python internal unicode format is ucs2 or ucs4?
i'm concerning with the qustion because i need to send data to external
application in ucs2 encoding

> 
>>2. how to convert string to UCS-2 
> 
> 
> s = ... # some ucs-2 string
> s.decode("utf-16")
not _from_ ucs2, but _to_ ucs2, for example:
s = ... # some utf-16 string
d = encode_to_ucs2(s)

> 
> might give you the right results for most cases:
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-May/024193.html
> 
> 


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Best regards,
Maxim