On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:36:10 -0700 (PDT), moi <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
>>>> 'äÄöÖüÜ'.encode('utf-8') >b'\xc3\xa4\xc3\x84\xc3\xb6\xc3\x96\xc3\xbc\xc3\x9c' >>>> len('äÄöÖüÜ'.encode('utf-8')) >12 >>>> >>>> ? Is there a question in there somewhere? Crystal ball is hazy... However... Note that once you encode the Unicode literal, you have a BYTE string. There are 12 bytes in that binary -- it is NOT considered Unicode at that point (only when you decode it with the same CODEC will it be Unicode). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfr...@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list