The below snippet code generates UnicodeDecodeError. #!/usr/bin/env python #--*-- coding: utf-8 --*-- s = 'äöü' u = unicode(s)
It seems that the system use the default encoding- ASCII to decode the utf8 encoded string literal, and thus generates the error. The question is why the Python interpreter use the default encoding instead of "utf-8", which I explicitly declared in the source. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
