[Sugar-devel] Unicode strings in translations

[Manuel Kaufmann]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:18 PM, S. Daniel Francis
<francis at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Now the question is: Why should we get translations as Python type
> Unicode and encode them again in utf-8?

The reason is given here:

"Software should only work with Unicode strings internally, converting
to a particular encoding on output."[1]

http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html#tips-for-writing-unicode-aware-programs

You can read the whole article. It's interesting. There are a lot of
things that I didn't know :)

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