Unicode blues in Python3

[John Nagle]

nn wrote:

> To be more informative I am both writing text and binary data
> together. That is I am embedding text from another source into stream
> that uses non-ascii characters as "control" characters. In Python2 I
> was processing it mostly as text containing a few "funny" characters.

    OK.  Then you need to be writing arrays of bytes, not strings.
Encoding is your problem.  This has nothing to do with Unicode.

				John Nagle