Max M wrote: > And this string will automatically be utf-8 encoded: > > st = 'æøå' > > So you should be able to convert it to unicode without giving an > encoding: > > ust = unicode(st) > No.
Strings have no knowledge of their encoding. As you describe the string will be utf-8 encoded, but you still have to tell it that when you decode it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
