Aahz wrote: > The problem is that they don't understand that "Martin v. L?wis" is not > Unicode -- once all strings are Unicode, this is guaranteed to work.
This specific call, yes. I don't think the problem will go away as long as both encode and decode are available for both strings and byte arrays. > While it's not absolutely true, my experience of watching Unicode > confusion is that the simplest approach for newbies is: encode FROM > Unicode, decode TO Unicode. I think this is what should be in-grained into the library, also. It shouldn't try to give additional meaning to these terms. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com