>>>>> "PP" == Paul Prescod <paulp@ActiveState.com> writes: PP> I don't feel strongly one way or another about this (ab?)use PP> of the codecs concept, myself, but I do feel strongly that PP> Unicode strings should behave as much as possible like 8-bit PP> strings. I'd agree with both statements. time-to-add-{encode,decode}string()-to-quopri-ly y'rs, -Barry