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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:08:56 +1100
Subject: Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> But using Python 2.7, I get a really bad case of moji-bake:
>
> [steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print u'=C3=B1=C3=B8=CE=BB=CF=80=D0=B9=D0=
=B6'"
> =C3=83=C2=B1=C3=83=C2=B8=C3=8E=C2=BB=C3=8F=C3=90=C2=B9=C3=90=C2=B6

What's 2.7's default source code encoding? I thought it was ascii, but
maybe it's assuming (in the absence of a magic cookie) that it's
Latin-1.

ChrisA