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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...?
>=20
> For reference the string is =E3=81=93=E3=82=8C=E3=81=AF in the =
'shift-jis' encoding.

Try it and see!  One test case is worth a thousand words.  And Python =
has an interactive interpreter. :-)


- Dave=