[Zope] Zope 2.6.1 and UTF-8

Mark Barratt markb at textmatters.com
Wed Sep 10 18:38:54 EDT 2003


<quote who="Toby Dickenson">
> On Wednesday 10 September 2003 16:56, Mark Barratt wrote:
>
>> When you use UTF-8 you are using Unicode.
>
>>>> type(u'hello')
> <type 'unicode'>
>>>> type(u'hello'.encode('utf8'))
> <type 'str'>
>
> But Im sure you knew that.

Nice of you to think so. In fact my ignorance about Python is almost
unbounded. (I know enough to guess that there is some sort of programmer's
joke potential in 'unbounded' but not enough to make it into one).

best

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