Re: [Demexp-dev] Character encoding

[Lyu Abe]

Hi Thomas and David,

Thanks for the clarification!

        Lyu.

Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Le Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:40:46 +0900,
> Lyu Abe <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> > There's one thing I do not understand in character coding of the
> > server's reply. When I display, for example, tag sets, I can read
> > this:
> >
> > 'a_tag_label': u'citoyennet\xe9'
> >
> > in which  " u'citoyennet\xe9' " corresponds to an unicode encoded
> > text, right? Then I do not understand why we get unicode encoded
> > strings, while DEMEXP is supposed to have UTF-8 encoding...
>
> The string you mention is encoded in ISO-8859-1 (or ISO-8859-15) : the
> special character é is encoded on one byte only, so it's not UTF-8.
>
> You're also making a confusion between Unicode and UTF-8. Unicode
> associates each character with an unique number, and UTF-8 allows to
> encode that number is a certain way. There are various way of encoding
> Unicode numbers (UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, UCS-2, etc.).
>
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode for more information.
>
> Sincerly,
>
> Thomas