Jeff H wrote:
hashlib.md5 does not appear to like unicode,
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa6' in
position 1650: ordinal not in range(128)
After googling, I've found BDFL and others on Py3K talking about the
problems of hashing non-bytes (i.e. buffers)
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09824.html
So what is the canonical way to hash unicode?
* convert unicode to local
* hash in current local
???
but what if local has ordinals outside of 128?
Is this just a problem for md5 hashes that I would not encounter using
a different method? i.e. Should I just use the built-in hash function?
>
It can handle bytestrings, but if you give it unicode it performs a
default encoding to ASCII, but that fails if there's a codepoint >=
U+0080. Personally, I'd recommend encoding unicode to UTF-8.
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