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[Lele Gaifax]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Bennetts <andrew at canonical.com> writes:

    Andrew> According to
    Andrew> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/048496.html,
    Andrew> sys.getdefaultencoding() should always return 'ascii'.

Uh, it's ashtonishing how many times one has to fall into encoding
problem and different practicies! 

    Andrew> AFAIK, the right fix is to always explicitly convert bytes
    Andrew> (i.e. the str type) to unicode, e.g. by
    Andrew> someval.decode(locale.getpreferredencoding()).

I did not know that, but looks a little bit cumbersome, isn't it?

thanx&bye,
lele.
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