Michael Lange wrote:
Ok, user input must be checked whether it's unicode or not and if necessary be
decoded to
unicode with system encoding. For internal operations I should then use only
unicode strings
and if I need to print something to stdout I must encode it again with system
encoding, righ
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:51:04 -0500
Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Lange wrote:
> > I *thought* I would have to convert the user input which might be any
> > encoding back into
> > byte string first
>
> How are you getting the user input? Is it from the console or from a GUI?
Michael Lange wrote:
I *thought* I would have to convert the user input which might be any encoding back into
byte string first
How are you getting the user input? Is it from the console or from a GUI?
I think the best strategy is to try to keep all your strings as Unicode. Unicode is the only
en
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:16:20 -0500
Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about
>n = self.nextfile
>if not isinstance(n, unicode):
> n = unicode(n, 'iso8859-1')
> ?
>
> > At least this might explain why "A\xe4" worked and "\xe4" not as I
> > mentioned in a previous post.
> >
