"Frank Stajano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I find the encode/decode terminology somewhat confusing, because arguably > both sides are > "encoded". For example, a unicode-encoded string (I mean a sequence of > unicode code > points) should count as "decoded" in the terminology of this framework, right? Yes. Unicode is the one true Universal Character Set, and everything else (including ASCII and UTF-8) is a mere encoding. Once you've got your head round that, things may make more sense. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
