"Steven D'Aprano" <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
If myVar is a Unicode string, you don't need to care about the encoding
(UTF-8 or otherwise) until you're ready to write it to a file. Then I
strongly recommend you always use UTF-8, unless you have to interoperate
with some old, legacy system:
assert isinstance(myVar, unicode)
byte_string = myVar.encode('utf-8')
An excellent summary of the mystics around text-encoding. Thank you.
--gv
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