[Tutor] Encoding

[Giorgio]

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>> Ok,so you confirm that:
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>> s = u"ciao è ciao" will use the file specified encoding, and that
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>> t = "ciao è ciao"
>> t = unicode(t)
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>> Will use, if not specified in the function, ASCII. It will ignore the
>> encoding I specified on the top of the file. right?
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> A literal  "u" string, and only such a (unicode) literal string, is
> affected by the encoding specification.  Once some bytes have been stored in
> a 8 bit string, the system does *not* keep track of where they came from,
> and any conversions then (even if they're on an adjacent line) will use the
> default decoder.  This is a logical example of what somebody said earlier on
> the thread -- decode any data to unicode as early as possible, and deal only
> with unicode strings in the program.  Then, if necessary, encode them into
> whatever output form immediately before (or while) outputting them.
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 Ok Dave, What i don't understand is why:

s = u"ciao è ciao" is converting a string to unicode, decoding it from the
specified encoding but

t = "ciao è ciao"
t = unicode(t)

That should do exactly the same instead of using the specified encoding
always assume that if i'm not telling the function what the encoding is, i'm
using ASCII.

Is this a bug?

Giorgio
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