editing in Unicode

[Roland Mas]

Bertilo Wennergren (2000-09-07 12:49:10 +0200) :

> > msg=unicode("@#&", "UTF8")
> 
> If I get this right the following simpler version ought to work:
> 
> msg=unicode("@#&")

Sounds right to me.

> What about using this:
> 
> msg = u'@#&'

  Hmm.  Not sure, since you would have to explicitly state somewhere
that the "argument" to the u'' construct has to be considered as
encoded in UTF-8.  Why UTF-8 and not -16, or Latin-1 or something
else?

Roland.
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