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| From | "Gisle Vanem" <gvanem@yahoo.no> |
|---|---|
| References | <mailman.2054.1383661067.18130.python-list@python.org> <52791f58$0$29972$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> |
| Subject | Re: how to find out utf or not |
| Date | 2013-11-05 18:10 +0100 |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.2068.1383695345.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
"Steven D'Aprano" <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> If myVar is a Unicode string, you don't need to care about the encoding
> (UTF-8 or otherwise) until you're ready to write it to a file. Then I
> strongly recommend you always use UTF-8, unless you have to interoperate
> with some old, legacy system:
>
> assert isinstance(myVar, unicode)
> byte_string = myVar.encode('utf-8')
An excellent summary of the mystics around text-encoding. Thank you.
--gv
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how to find out utf or not Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh <mohsen@pahlevanzadeh.org> - 2013-11-05 16:32 +0330
Re: how to find out utf or not Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-05 16:39 +0000
Re: how to find out utf or not "Gisle Vanem" <gvanem@yahoo.no> - 2013-11-05 18:10 +0100
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