On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: .. > (also, I don't understand the spelling issue: "utf-8" just works)
This is probably referring to the fact that while encode() accepts many spelling variants, some are short-circuited in C code while others require codec lookup implemented in python. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com