Thomas Heller wrote:
>=20
> > > How can I do the equivalent of
> > > u"some string"
> > > in terms of
> > > unicode("some string", encoding)
> For example the copyright symbol "=A9" (repr("=A9") gives "\xa9").
> Now I want to convert this string to unicode.
> u"=A9" works fine, unicode(variable) gives an ASCII decoding error.
u"something" maps to unicode("something", "latin-1"). This is because
Unicode literals in Python are interpreted as being Latin-1.=20
See the source code encoding PEP (0263) for details on what could be=20
done to make this user-configurable.
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