John Machin wrote: > On Apr 25, 10:01 pm, Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet-
>> >>> media="x???[?" >> >>> print repr(media.decode("utf-8")) >> >> u'x\u30ef\u30e6\u30ed[\u30e8' (dang, KNode doesn't autodetect encodings ...) > But that_unicode_string.encode("utf-8") produces > 'x\xe3\x83\xaf\xe3\x83\xa6\xe3\x83\xad[\xe3\x83\xa8' > which does not contain the complained-about byte 0x9c in position > 1 (or any other position) -- how can that be? Probably the OP used a different encoding. That seems even more likely given the fact that his postings have a Japanese encoding (but this one doesn't produce any 0x9c, either). Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #346: Your/our computer(s) had suffered a memory leak, and we are waiting for them to be topped up. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list