File: class/Extras/Other/PriorClasses/scotts-sep12/unicode-2x-demo.txt

ÿþ>>> S = u'A\xC4B'

>>> print S

AÄB

>>> codecs.open('uni.txt', 'w', 'utf-8').write(S)

>>> open('uni.txt', 'rb').read()

'A\xc3\x84B'

>>> 

>>> codecs.open('uni.txt', 'r', 'utf-8').read()

u'A\xc4B'

>>> print codecs.open('uni.txt', 'r', 'utf-8').read()

AÄB

>>> 

>>> S

u'A\xc4B'

>>> S.encode('latin-1')

'A\xc4B'

>>> S.encode('utf-8')

'A\xc3\x84B'

>>> S.encode('utf-16')

'\xff\xfeA\x00\xc4\x00B\x00'

>>> 

>>> X = S.encode('utf-16')

>>> X

'\xff\xfeA\x00\xc4\x00B\x00'

>>> X.decode('utf-16')

u'A\xc4B'

>>> print X.decode('utf-16')

AÄB