Issue1538001

Jython 2.2a1 at least with java1.5.0_06 and java1.4.2_04

>>> u = u'Hyv\u00E4'
>>> u
'Hyv\xE4'
>>> type(u)
<type 'str'>
>>> unicode(u)
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeError: ascii decoding error: ordinal not in
range(128)
>>>


Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310
32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> u = u'Hyv\u00E4'
>>> u
u'Hyv\xe4'
>>> type(u)
<type 'unicode'>
>>> unicode(u)
u'Hyv\xe4'
>>>

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Additionally in Jython you get

>>> str(u)
'hyv\xE4'

but in Python 

>>> str(u)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
u'\xe4' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

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The initial bug reported is already fixed in svn.  The
comment about str's is just showing how things differ in
Jython and CPython since Jython stores str as a java String
internally.