In article <[email protected]>, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, I know that. But every concrete representation of a unicode string >> has to have an encoding associated with it, including unicode strings >> produced by the Python parser when it parses the ascii string "u'\xb5'" >> >> My question is: what is that encoding? > >The internal representation is either UTF-16, or UTF-32; which one is >a compile-time choice (i.e. when the Python interpreter is built).
Wait, I thought it was UCS-2 or UCS-4? Or am I misremembering the countless threads about the distinction between UTF and UCS? -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
