Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
> >>> u = u'\u1f40'
> >>> s = u.encode('utf8')
> >>> s
> 'a=\x80'
> >>>
>
> The latter output is not helpful, because the encoding of s is not the
> locale's encoding.
[Somehow, the accents got lost in your message]
It isn't helpful, but it isn't strictly wrong, either. In this
specific case, people are used to see utf-8 being interpreted as
Latin-1 - that form of "mojibake" is very common, so they will know
what happened.
I question whether the hex representation is more helpful: it depends
on how you need to interpret the result you get.
Regards,
Martin
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