[Chicago] understanding unicode problems

[Carl Karsten]

Pete wrote:
> On Friday November 16 2007 11:10:47 am Pete wrote:
>> Here's a little picture:
>>
>> network => str => decode => unicode => munge => encode => disk
> 
> Oops, left out the 2nd str.  Should be:
> 
> network => str => decode => unicode => munge => encode => str => disk
> 

huh?

I am guessing the whole "what is a byte" and how python stores data in memory is 
still thwarting my understanding.   hmm, don't really need to know "how" it is 
stored, just... um.. how to talk about it abstractly or something.  This may be 
part of the unicode problem: the terms used when talking about it have different 
meanings to the speaker and listener.  maybe.

Carl K