Bhuvaneswaran A wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 10:22 +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
>
>> Branko Čibej wrote:
>>
>> Or just escape the "special" characters.
>>
>
> Good point. I used to encode using utf-8, but it doesn't seem to
> detect/encode these characters, resulting in unchanged behaviour. I used
> something like:
>
> reason = u'%s'.encode('utf-8') % reason
> reason = unicode(reason, 'utf-8')
>
That's because ASCII control characters are valid UTF-8 sequences,
there's no encoding to be done in this case.
-- Brane
