[Python-3000] Help on text editors

[David Hopwood]

Michael Urman wrote:
> As for whether cp932 is the same as Shift JIS, David and I seem to
> disagree. While I lack hard data, the string '\\' round trips through
> either on my box.

I missed this part. On any single implementation, '\\' will usually round-trip
from Unicode -> Shift-JIS -> Unicode; the issue is whether it is encoded as
0x5C, or something else like 0x815F. It may very well not round-trip if you
use different implementations for encoding and decoding.

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David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>