[Jython-users] Unicode

[Paul P. <pa...@pr...>]

Brian Quinlan reported this strange result to me:

Jython 2.1 on java1.3.1_02 (JIT: null)
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>>> x=u'\x81'
>>> unicode(x)
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeError: ascii decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

If Jython is going to unify 8-bit strings and Unicode strings (as Java
does) then it should probably treat them all as Unicode strings, not as
8-bit.

 Paul Prescod