unicode by default

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 12 May 2011 03:31:18 +0100, MRAB wrote:

>> Another question... in mail I'm receiving many small blocks that look
>> like sprites with four small hex codes, scattered about the mail...
>> mostly punctuation, maybe? ... guessing, are these unicode code points,
>> and if so what is the best way to 'guess' the encoding? ... is it coded
>> in the stream somewhere...protocol?
>>
> You need to understand the difference between characters and bytes.


http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

is also a good resource.


-- 
Steven