Unicode universe (was Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 30))
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Jan 4 10:18:15 EST 2005
In article <1104849206.111461.70500 at c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
<michele.simionato at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>BTW what's the difference between .encode and .decode ?
>(yes, I have been living in happy ASCII-land until now ... ;)
Here's the stark simple recipe: when you use Unicode, you *MUST* switch
to a Unicode-centric view of the universe. Therefore you encode *FROM*
Unicode and you decode *TO* Unicode. Period. It's similar to the way
floating point contaminates ints.
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