Unicode characters in btye-strings

[John Bokma]

Michael Rudolf <spamfresser at ch3ka.de> writes:

> Am 12.03.2010 21:56, schrieb Martin v. Loewis:
>> (*) If a source encoding was given, the source is actually recoded to
>> UTF-8, parsed, and then re-encoded back into the original encoding.
>
> Why is that? So "unicode"-strings (as in u"string") are not really
> unicode-, but utf8-strings?

utf8 is a Unicode *encoding*.

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