2011/6/14 Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergi...@sapo.pt>: > And see, I can send ascii and utf-8 to utf-8 output and never have problems, > but if I send ascii and utf-8 to ascii files sometimes got encode errors. >
If something fits inside 7-bit ASCII, it is by definition valid UTF-8. This is not a coincidence. Those hours you've spent grokking this are not wasted, if you now have a comprehension of characters vs encodings. More people in the world need to understand that difference! :) Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list