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| Subject | Re: Unicode literals and byte string interpretation. |
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| From | David Riley <fraveydank@gmail.com> |
| Date | 2011-10-27 23:37 -0400 |
| References | <8de0e9b7-aaac-44a4-8a07-9c1a20bfc3eb@s7g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.2272.1319773026.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:05 PM, Fletcher Johnson wrote: > If I create a new Unicode object u'\x82\xb1\x82\xea\x82\xcd' how does > this creation process interpret the bytes in the byte string? Does it > assume the string represents a utf-16 encoding, at utf-8 encoding, > etc...? > > For reference the string is これは in the 'shift-jis' encoding. Try it and see! One test case is worth a thousand words. And Python has an interactive interpreter. :-) - Dave
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Unicode literals and byte string interpretation. Fletcher Johnson <flt.johnson@gmail.com> - 2011-10-27 20:05 -0700
Re: Unicode literals and byte string interpretation. David Riley <fraveydank@gmail.com> - 2011-10-27 23:37 -0400
Re: Unicode literals and byte string interpretation. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-10-28 14:38 +1100
Re: Unicode literals and byte string interpretation. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-10-28 07:06 +0000
Re: Unicode literals and byte string interpretation. Fletcher Johnson <flt.johnson@gmail.com> - 2011-10-31 21:01 -0700
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