Re: 'Straße' ('Strasse') and Python 2

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
> I think about these as encodings, because that's what they are
> mathematically, logically & practically. I can encode the target grapheme
> sequence as a sequence of bytes using a particular 'unicode encoding' eg
> utf8 or a sequence of code points.

By that definition, you can equally encode it as a bitmapped image, or
as a series of lines and arcs, and those are equally well "encodings"
of the character. This is not the normal use of that word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding

ChrisA