Hi Max. Many thanks for helping to realize where I was missing the point and making this clearer.
Regards,
David
Max Erickson wrote:
> The encoding argument to unicode() is used to specify the encoding of the
> string that you want to translate into unicode. The interpreter stores
> unicode as unicode, it isn't encoded...
>
>
>>>>unicode('\xbe','cp1252')
>
> u'\xbe'
>
>>>>unicode('\xbe','cp1252').encode('utf-8')
>
> '\xc2\xbe'
>
>
>
> max
>
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