Re: [Jython-users] Unicode

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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:49:45 -0500, you wrote:

[Paul Prescod wrote]

> Is that a problem? If the user specifies an encoding then you could
> decode. If they don't, I would suggest to just do a no-op. Under what
> circumstances would the current exception be more helpful?

[Brian Quinlan] 

> Because you are specifically looking for the exception to see if the
> string can be converted to a Unicode object using the default encoding?

No, it's because you can change the codec used to something more usefull
than the default "ascii".

[dman]

>Is it supposed to be an error when trying to convert a unicode object
>to a unicode object?  I don't think so. 

And I agree. Passing a unicode object to unicode() should have been a
no-op. Jython only has this 'problem' because we can't have different
execution paths based on the type of string objects.

regards,
finn