[Tutor] Encoding

[Giorgio]

2010/3/5 Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org>

I'm not angry, and I'm sorry if I seemed angry.  Tone of voice is hard to
> convey in a text message.


Ok, sorry. I've misunderstood your mail :D


> I'm still not sure whether your confusion is to what the rules are, or why
> the rules were made that way.


WHY the rules are made that way. But now it's clear.

2010/3/6 Mark Tolonen <metolone+gmane at gmail.com <metolone%2Bgmane at gmail.com>
>

>
>  Maybe this will help:
>
>   # coding: utf-8
>
>   a = "ciao è ciao"
>   b = u"ciao è ciao".encode('latin-1')
>
> a is a UTF-8 string, due to #coding line in source.
> b is a latin-1 string, due to explicit encoding.
>

Oh, right. And, if i'm not wrong B is an UTF8 string decoded to unicode (due
to the coding: statement at the top of the file) and re-encoded to latin1


> -Mark


Thankyou again

Giorgio




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