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Re: unicode by default

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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> You need to understand the difference between characters and bytes.
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
>
> is also a good resource.

Thanks for being patient guys, here's what I've done:

>>>> astr="pound sign"
>>>> asym=" \u00A3"
>>>> afile=open("myfile", mode='w')
>>>> afile.write(astr + asym)
> 12
>>>> afile.close()


When I edit "myfile" with vi I see the 'characters' :

pound sign £

    ... same with emacs, same with gedit  ...


When I hexdump myfile I see this:

0000000 6f70 6375 2064 6973 6e67 c220 00a3


This is *not* what I expected... well it is (little-endian) right up to 
the 'c2' and that is what is confusing me....

I did not open the file with an encoding of UTF-8... so I'm assuming 
UTF-16 by default (python3) so I was expecting a '00A3' little-endian as 
'A300' but what I got instead was UTF-8 little-endian  'c2a3' ....

See my problem?... when I open the file with emacs I see the character 
pound sign... same with gedit... they're all using UTF-8 by default. By 
default it looks like Python3 is writing output with UTF-8 as default... 
and I thought that by default Python3 was using either UTF-16 or UTF-32. 
So, I'm confused here...  also, I used the character sequence \u00A3 
which I thought was UTF-16... but Python3 changed my intent to  'c2a3' 
which is the normal UTF-8...

Thanks again for your patience... I really do hate to be dense about 
this...  but this is another area where I'm just beginning to dabble and 
I'd like to know soon what I'm doing...

Thanks for the link Steve... I'm headed there now...




kind regards,
m harris

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unicode by default harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-11 16:37 -0500
  Re: unicode by default Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-05-11 16:09 -0600
    Re: unicode by default harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-11 17:51 -0500
      Re: unicode by default "John Machin" <sjmachin@lexicon.net> - 2011-05-12 09:32 +1000
        Re: unicode by default harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-11 20:22 -0500
          Re: unicode by default MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-05-12 03:31 +0100
            Re: unicode by default Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-12 03:16 +0000
              Re: unicode by default harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-11 22:44 -0500
                Re: unicode by default Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-12 00:12 -0400
                Re: unicode by default harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-12 01:43 -0500
                Re: unicode by default "John Machin" <sjmachin@lexicon.net> - 2011-05-12 14:14 +1000
                Re: unicode by default Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-05-11 21:14 -0700
                Re: unicode by default "John Machin" <sjmachin@lexicon.net> - 2011-05-12 14:41 +1000
                Re: unicode by default harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-12 01:14 -0500
                Re: unicode by default TheSaint <nobody@nowhere.net.no> - 2011-05-12 20:40 +0800
            Re: unicode by default Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-12 14:07 +1000
              Re: unicode by default harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-12 01:31 -0500
                Re: unicode by default "John Machin" <sjmachin@lexicon.net> - 2011-05-12 17:58 +1000
                Re: unicode by default Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 10:17 -0600
                Re: unicode by default jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 23:28 -0700
                Re: unicode by default harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-13 14:53 -0500
                Re: unicode by default Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-05-13 15:18 -0500
                Re: unicode by default Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-13 21:41 -0400
                Re: unicode by default harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-05-14 02:41 -0500
                Re: unicode by default jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 03:26 -0700
                Re: unicode by default Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-14 16:26 -0400
                Re: unicode by default Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-15 09:47 +1000
                Re: unicode by default Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-05-14 09:34 +0100
                Re: unicode by default Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-12 16:42 -0400
                Re: unicode by default Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 16:25 -0600
          Re: unicode by default "John Machin" <sjmachin@lexicon.net> - 2011-05-12 13:54 +1000
  Re: unicode by default Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-05-11 15:34 -0700

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