encoding

[Martin Pool]

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 14:58 +0200, Szekeres István wrote:
> > Always use UTF8?  Suggestions welcome.
> 
> encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
> s=unicode('some string with local accents in it', encoding)
> 
> on my system this seems to do the job correctly.

Yes, but it just seems wrong to have to write that by hand on everything
that deals with the outside world.  I suppose that's what I have to do.

-- 
Martin

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