A Unicode string is just like a regular Python string, except it uses characters, rather than bytes. Indeed, Python 2's Unicode strings are just like Python 3's default strings.

This has led to compilers and some languages like Python (optionally) allowing for the use of UTF-32 to represent Unicode strings. Of all the Unicode formats, UTF-8 is however the most popular by far.

I need a function that will convert any string into unicode; that supports things like letters with accents and whatnot.I might have my terminology wrong ...

Then the Unicode characters are encoded and stuck on the end of the string. First, the numeric codepoint and position in the string are multiplied together.

more info - i was able to get this running on an old NT4.0 box, so the driver works, but NT5.0 has the "Not enough memory was available for a UNICODE_STRING" problem. Also, NT5.0 reports that the ...

More specifically, the Unicode string in question is part of a much longer block of text that cannot be fully rendered in Notifications.