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On 04/07/2013 12:29, Νίκος wrote:
> Στις 4/7/2013 1:54 μμ, ο/η Chris Angelico έγραψε:
>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:38 PM, ����� <nikos@superhost.gr> wrote:
>>> So you are also suggesting that what gesthostbyaddr() returns is not utf-8
>>> encoded too?
>>>
>>> What character is 0xb6 anyways?
>>
>> It isn't. It's a byte. Bytes are not characters.
>>
>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
>
> Well in case of utf-8 encoding for the first 127 codepoing we can safely
> say that a character equals a byte :)
>
Equals? No. Bytes are not characters. (Strictly speaking, they're
codepoints, not characters.)

And anyway, it's the first _128_ codepoints.