> Well, the if no encoding is declared, it (quite sensibly) assumes UTF-8, > so for my purposes this boils down to using a UTF-8 editor -- which I > always do anyway. But do I still have to put a "u" before my string > literals in order to have it treated as characters rather than bytes?
Yes. > I'm hoping that the answer is "no" Then you need to switch to Python 3.0, when it comes out. Its string literals denote unicode strings. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
