[Python-Dev] Re: Regression in unicodestr.encode()? (original) (raw)

Fran�ois Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
09 Apr 2002 18:15:39 -0400

[Barry A. Warsaw]

My very limited Tim-enlightened understanding is that encoding a string to UTF-8 should never produce a string with NULs.

Besides the fact that NULs encode to themselves. In fact, 0-127 encode to themselves, and are never produced otherwise. Also, 254 and 255 are never produced, I heard that some use these to escape out within an UTF-8 string.

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