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Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout

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Date 2011-06-14 00:49 +1000
Subject Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.168.1307976549.11593.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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2011/6/14 Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb@sapo.pt>:
> And see, I can send ascii and utf-8 to utf-8 output and never have problems,
> but if I send ascii and utf-8 to ascii files sometimes got encode errors.
>

If something fits inside 7-bit ASCII, it is by definition valid UTF-8.
This is not a coincidence.

Those hours you've spent grokking this are not wasted, if you now have
a comprehension of characters vs encodings. More people in the world
need to understand that difference! :)

Chris Angelico

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the stupid encoding problem to stdout Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb@sapo.pt> - 2011-06-09 03:18 +0100
  Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-09 12:39 +1000
    Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb@sapo.pt> - 2011-06-09 22:16 +0100
      Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-10 09:19 +1000
  Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-06-08 20:00 -0700
    Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb@sapo.pt> - 2011-06-09 22:14 +0100
      Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-06-09 22:46 +0100
        Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-09 20:14 -0400
        Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb@sapo.pt> - 2011-06-10 02:11 +0100
          Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-10 11:45 +1000
            Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb@sapo.pt> - 2011-06-10 02:59 +0100
            Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb@sapo.pt> - 2011-06-10 16:11 +0100
              Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 10:58 -0600
                Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb@sapo.pt> - 2011-06-13 15:15 +0100
                Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-14 00:49 +1000
              Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-11 08:07 +1000
      Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout "Mark Tolonen" <metolone+gmane@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 17:57 -0700
        Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergiomb@sapo.pt> - 2011-06-10 02:17 +0100
  Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 07:47 +0200
  Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 07:47 +0200
  Re: the stupid encoding problem to stdout Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 07:47 +0200

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