Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > […] HTML markup is all ASCII.
Wrong. I am creating HTML documents whose source code contains Unicode characters every day. Also, the two of you fail to differentiate between US-ASCII, a 7-bit character encoding, and 8-bit or longer encodings which can *also* encode characters that can be *encoded with* US-ASCII. -- PointedEars Twitter: @PointedEars2 Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list