Hi group,
I just came across the following exception:
#v+
$ python
Python 2.4.2 (#2, Sep 30 2005, 21:19:01)
[GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import unicodedata
>>> u'\N{LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL BARRED B}'
UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-38:
unknown Unicode character name
>>> unicodedata.name(u'\u1d03')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: no such name
>>> ^D
$
#v-
When checking unicodedata.name() against each uchar in the file
/usr/share/unidata/UnicodeData-4.0.1d1b.txt that came with the
console-data package on my Ubuntu Linux installation a total of
1226 unicode characters seems to be missing from the unicodedata
module (2477 missing characters when checking against the latest
database from unicode.org¹). Is this a deliberate omission?
Cheers,
Klaus.
¹) http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
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SubZeroNet, Copenhagen, Denmark
http://magnetic-ink.dk/
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