Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2006-11-10, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> But I don't insist on my PEP. The example just shows just > >>> another pitfall with Unicode and why I'll advise to any > >>> beginner: Never write text constants that contain non-ascii > >>> chars as simple strings, always make them Unicode strings by > >>> prepending the "u". > >> > >> That doesn't do any good if you aren't writing them in unicode > >> code points, though. > > > > You tell the interpreter what encoding your source code is in. > > It then knows precisely how to decode your string literals into > > Unicode. How do you write things in "Unicode code points"? > > for = u"f\xfcr"
Unless you're using unicode unfriendly editor or console, u"f\xfcr" is the same as u"für": >>> u"f\xfcr" is u"für" True So there is no need to write unicode strings in hexadecimal representation of code points. -- Leo
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