On 8/3/06, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As an alternate idea, rather than attempting to .decode('ascii') when
> strings and unicode compare, why not .decode('latin-1')? We lose the
> unicode decoding error, but "the right thing" happens (in my opinion)
> when u'\xa1' and '\xa1' compare.
Since I use utf-8 way more than I use latin-1, -1. Since others do
not, -1 on any not obviously correct encoding other than ascii, which
gets grandfathered.
This raises an exception for a good reason. Yes it's annoying at
times. We should fix those times, not the (unbroken) exception.
Michael
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Michael Urman http://www.tortall.net/mu/blog
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