comparing Unicode and string

[luc.saffre at gmail.com]

Hello,

here is something that surprises me.

  #coding: iso-8859-1
  s1=u"Frau Müller machte große Augen"
  s2="Frau Müller machte große Augen"
  if s1 == s2:
      pass

Running this code produces a UnicodeDecodeError:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tmp.py", line 4, in ?
    if s1 == s2:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 6:
ordinal not in range(128)

I would have expected that "s1 == s2" gives True... or maybe False...
but raising an error here is unnecessary. I guess that the comparison
operator decides to convert s2 to a Unicode but forgets that I said
#coding: iso-8859-1 at the beginning of the file.

TIA for any comments.

Luc Saffre