STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: Oh wait. PEP 383 is a solution to store undecodable bytes in an unicode string, but for mbcs I'm trying to get the opposite: store unicode in bytes and this is not possible (at least with PEP 383).
Example with Python 3.1: >>> print("abcŁdef".encode("cp1252", "surrogateescape")) ... UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u0141' in position 3: character maps to <undefined> ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9821> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com