On 4/26/07, Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name> wrote: > I don't know how encoding is done in 3.7. I think 3.7 and 3.8 are > similar as the big changes happened in 3.9 (as far as know). No, the big String changes happened in 3.8. In 3.7, the internal representation is always as single byte strings. Avi