On Aug 5, 8:37 pm, "Jorgen Bodde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John, > > > If you don't want to be bothered with "unicode problems": > > (1) Don't create a "unicode problem" when one doesn't exist. > > (2) Don't bother other people with *your* "unicode problems". > > Well I guess you misunderstood what I meant.
Sorry, it's my ETL (English as a Third Language) problem; my mother tongue is the Queensland dialect of Australian :-) > > > In this case, less is more; remove the u prefix in the line > > filemask = u"%file%" > > Ok thanks. I thought making it unicode because it is a search string > that is used in a UTF-8 encoded replacement, would solve it, "UTF-8 encoded" implies a str (8-bits per character) object, not a unicode object. Solve what? What problem did you have before you put the u in there? > > > Long Path: > > Ignorance is not bliss. Lose the attitude. Unicode is your friend, not > > an instrument of Satan. Read this: > > http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode > > I never said that I have an attitude towards unicode, I simply > misunderstood it's inner workings. I must have misunderstood "pains" and "bother", eh? Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
