>> Comment By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bacademy)
> Date: 2006-11-13 23:10
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> I tend to read "encode" as "to" and "decode" as from.
> I also helps to remember that there is always a pair
> (from,to) of strings, and both encodings must be known.
> It is far easier if strings are always kept as unicode,
> because an unicode string knows its encoding.
> So s.encode('char-set') will never fail if s can be
> encoded in 'char-set'. Problems arise because
> non-unicode python strings can contain non-ascii
> characters, but the default character set is ascii when
> encoding or decoding.
The problem with the names is that there is no 'from' so encode/decode
are a bit ambiguous, what I mean is that decode converts a string to a
Unicode string and encode a Unicode string to a string.
One thing I have noticed is that you can write a script printing
different string formats that works on the console but not when
redirecting to a file.
Freevo does use Unicode as much as possible, however tv_grab write xmltv
in latin-1, so this data needs converting to Unicode. I think that this
is where the problem stems.
>
> Now if I recall, XML parser always should return unicode
> strings which is good. But perhaps that is converted to
> basic python string in freevo in some cases, which
> should not be done. I'll need to take a look how freevo
> handles it. Keeping everything in freevo in UTF-8 might
> be a good solution, as it can represent everything, and
> it is a superset of ascii (7 bit ascii chars only take a
> byte).
>
> Another curve ball is the terminal -- it is a third
> character set to consider, some strings will not render
> correctly on terminals
> (http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/python.html)
>
> Unicode encode,decode should not really come up in that
> many places in the code. And btw.
> sys.setdefaultencoding() is only available in the
> init.py, which is bit of a bummer... I haven't really
> looked into why is that yet, and is there a
> workaround...
>
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