http://dryice.name/blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en the key is, unicode in Python is an object, unicode(str, "utf-8") makes that object from an utf-9 str, and str.encode("utf-8") encode a string to the utf-8 encoding. To write unicode-aware python code, I'll need to: when getting data, use unicode(str, "the_encoding") to get an unicode object use unicode object inside my program, like ... http://dryice.name/blog/python/unicodestr-utf-8-and-strencodeutf-8/ import codecs fp = codecs.open(fileName, "r", "utf-8") fp.read() * http://evanjones.ca/python-utf8.html * http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/python.html Share This http://dryice.name/blog/python/reading-utf-8-file-in-python/