Convertion of Unicode to ASCII NIGHTMARE

[Fredrik Lundh]

Roger Binns wrote:

> > fact or FUD?  let's see:
>
> Note I said SQLite.  For APIs that take/give strings, you can either
> supply/get a UTF-8 encoded sequence of bytes, or two bytes per character
> host byte order sequence.  Any wrapper of SQLite that doesn't do
> Unicode in/out is seriously breaking things.
>
> I ended up using the UTF-8 versions of the API as Python can't quite
> make its mind up how to represent Unicode strings at the C api level.
> You can have two bytes per char or four, and the handling/production
> of byte order markers isn't that clear either.

sounds like your understanding of Unicode and Python's Unicode system
is a bit unclear.

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