Am 28.03.2012 11:43, schrieb Peter Daum:
... in my example, the variable s points to a "string", i.e. a series
of
bytes, (0x61,0x62 ...) interpreted as ascii/unicode characters.
No; a string contains a series of codepoints from the unicode plane,
representing natural language characters (at least in the simplistic
view, I'm not talking about surrogates). These can be encoded to
different binary storage representations, of which ascii is (a common)
one.
What I am looking for is a general way to just copy the raw data
from a "string" object to a "byte" object without any attempt to
"decode" or "encode" anything ...
There is "logically" no raw data in the string, just a series of
codepoints, as stated above. You'll have to specify the encoding to use
to get at "raw" data, and from what I gather you're interested in the
latin-1 (or iso-8859-15) encoding, as you're specifically referencing
chars >= 0x80 (which hints at your mindset being in LATIN-land, so to
speak).
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