Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Dominic Mitchell <dom(_at_)semantico(_dot_)com> writes:
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.
That is so legacy code that used chr() in non-ASCII locale "works"
same as it always did.
I realise that, it just took me by surprise because I was thinking in
Unicode. In fact, I was making unwarranted assumptions.
-Dom
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