>>>>> mario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (M) wrote:
>M> $ python
>M> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04)
>M> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin
>M> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> unicode('', 'mbcs')
>M> u''
>>>>> unicode('abc', 'mbcs')
>M> Traceback (most recent call last):
>M> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>M> LookupError: unknown encoding: mbcs
>>>>>
>M> Hmmn, strange. Same behaviour for "raboof".
Apparently for the empty string the encoding is irrelevant as it will not
be used. I guess there is an early check for this special case in the code.
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