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Sat Jul 15 22:00:35 CEST 2006 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/067473.html

On Jul 15, 2006, at 3:15 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Note that it also helps setting the default encoding
> to 'unknown'. That way you disable the coercion of strings
> to Unicode and all the places where this implicit conversion
> takes place crop up, allowing you to take proper action (i.e.
> explicit conversion or changing of the string to Unicode
> as appropriate).

I've tried that before to verify no such conversion issues occurred  
in Twisted, but, as the python stdlib isn't usable like that, it's  
hard to use it to find bugs in any other libraries. (in particular,  
the re module is badly broken, some other stuff was too).

James

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