Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Dictionary Question

[J Busser]

At 8:21 AM +1100 2/22/05, Richard Terry wrote:
>  > > u'' means that this is a unicode string - you can work with these or
> >  > change their coding to ordinary strings, e.g.
> >  >
> >  > u'my text'.encode('latin-1') gives you 'my text" as ordinary string.
> >
> >  You certainly can but please don't unless you have good reason
> >  to really do so. People with non-7-bit-ascii languages will
>  > run into trouble quite soon if you do.

I read it differently (but could be wrong).
I interpreted Karsten as saying
- "don't worry about the 'u' tag"
- DO avoid changing the coding to ordinary strings