Giorgio wrote:
2010/3/4 spir <denis.s...@gmail.com>
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Ok,so you confirm that:
s = u"ciao è ciao" will use the file specified encoding, and that
t = "ciao è ciao"
t = unicode(t)
Will use, if not specified in the function, ASCII. It will ignore the
encoding I specified on the top of the file. right?
A literal "u" string, and only such a (unicode) literal string, is
affected by the encoding specification. Once some bytes have been
stored in a 8 bit string, the system does *not* keep track of where they
came from, and any conversions then (even if they're on an adjacent
line) will use the default decoder. This is a logical example of what
somebody said earlier on the thread -- decode any data to unicode as
early as possible, and deal only with unicode strings in the program.
Then, if necessary, encode them into whatever output form immediately
before (or while) outputting them.
Again, thankyou. I'm loving python and his community.
Giorgio
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