Re: Interpretation of non-UTF8 strings

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> This leaves chr() ambiguous, so there should be some other function for
> making Unicode code points, as chr should probably be kept for
> compatibility to mean the default encoding.
In the past when I've needed to guarantee Unicode code points, I've used 
 unpack("U",300).  chr() violates the principle of least astonishment 
(for me anyway) by producing single byte output for input between 0x7f < 
n < 0x100.
-Dom

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