Juho Vuori wrote: > str(u'lää') raises UnicodeEncodeError
> Is this behaviour sane? Possibly, but not documented at all. str() on a Unicode string attempts to convert the string to an 8-bit string using Python's default encoding, which is ASCII. "ä" is not an ASCII character. if this problem appears in a 3rd party program, that program has not been properly internationalized. > Somehow you'd expect str() to never fail. except for id() and type(), virtually all builtins can fail. If you want to convert something to a string no matter what it contains, repr() is a better choice. If you want to convert Unicode strings to a given byte encoding, you have to use the encode method. </F>
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