Unicode universe (was Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 30))

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Jan 4 10:32:54 EST 2005


    aahz> Here's the stark simple recipe: when you use Unicode, you *MUST*
    aahz> switch to a Unicode-centric view of the universe.  Therefore you
    aahz> encode *FROM* Unicode and you decode *TO* Unicode.  Period.  It's
    aahz> similar to the way floating point contaminates ints.

That's what I do in my code.  Why do Unicode objects have a decode method
then?

Skip




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