[Python-Dev] PEP 263 in the works (Non-ASCII characters in test_pep277.py in 2.3) (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
07 Oct 2002 19:53:03 +0200

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

With Python 2.3 this prints: =20 =C3=83=C2=A4=C3=83=C2=B6=C3=83=C2=BC

As Guido explains: No, it doesn't. Your terminal display this incorrectly.

Please understand that Python cannot possibly know, at run-time, what encoding a byte string has. This is only possible for Unicode strings.

Regards, Martin