On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 12:33:10 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > And yet the ASCII and Unicode standard says code point 0x0A (U+000A LINE > FEED) is a character, by definition. [...] > > Is an acute accent a character? > > Yes, according to Unicode. ‘´’ (U+0301 ACUTE ACCENT) is a character.
Do you have references for those claims? Because I'm pretty sure that Unicode is very, very careful to never use the word "character" in a formal or normative manner, only as an informal term for "the kinds of things that regular folk consider letters or characters or similar". And I don't think regular folks would know what a line feed was if it jumped out of their computer and bit them :-) They would know what an accent is, and I doubt they would consider an accent not on a base letter to be a character. (I know I don't.) -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
