Re: Problems with case folding of UTF-8

[Pierangelo Masarati <masarati@aero.polimi.it>]

> Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > 
> > Can you, Stig and Michael, provide a set of strings that do not
> > work, so that I can try to see what's going on?
> 
> Well, Ströder (hopefully properly encoded as ISO-8859-1 in this
> e-mail) is one. The hex-escaped string representation produced by
> Python's UTF-8 Unicode codec is:
> 
> 'Str\xc3\xb6der'
> 
> Furthermore here are all the german umlauts (each two bytes long):
> 
> 'äöüÄÖÜß' ->
> 
> '\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3\xbc\xc3\x84\xc3\x96\xc3\x9c\xc3\x9f'

I guess you also need to omit the 'x' right? '\c3\a4' and so ...

Pierangelo.