Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 08:33:28PM +0200, Petite Abeille wrote:
> 
> On Jun 29, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Mike Pall wrote:
> 
> > Deciding not to support UTF-8 escapes in 2011 is
> > rather anachronistic.
> 
> Meh. 
> 
> What's wrong with hex sequences?
> 
> print( '\xE2\x86\x92' )
> 
> →
> 
> Or literals?
> 
> print( '←' )
> 
> ←
> 
> Plus, the OP requested unicode sequences, e.g. \u2192 instead of \xE2\x86\x92 for →. Doesn't seem worth the trouble.
> 

Yes, I don't see the point of supporting UTF-8 sequences while e.g
the pattern "[ａ-ｚ]*" doesn't do what you expect.

Just for clarification: is it true that UTF-8 is locale-independent
if you take care not to use any one-byte characters above '\x7f'?

Dirk