On Mar 9, 12:24 pm, "Richard Brodie" <r.bro...@rl.ac.uk> wrote: > "C. Benson Manica" <cbman...@gmail.com> wrote in > messagenews:98375575-1071-46af-8ebc-f3c817b47...@q23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... > > >The strings come from the same place, i.e. they're exclusively > > normal ASCII characters. > > In this case then converting them to/from UTF-8 is a no-op, so > it makes no difference at all.
Except to the database library, which seems perfectly happy to send an 8-character UTF-8 string to the database as 16 raw characters... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
