[ python-Bugs-1058351 ] Blatantly false statement in the Unicode section

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Bugs item #1058351, was opened at 2004-11-02 04:47
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Olivier Verdier (chtito)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Blatantly false statement in the Unicode section

Initial Comment:
The statement is "you will find it convenient that the lower 256 
characters of Unicode are the same as the 256 characters of Latin
-1". 

That is obviously false. Only the first 128 characters (those 
encoded on the first 7 bits) are the same in usual one byte 
encodings (latin-x, for instance) and unicode. The eighth bit is used 
by unicode to trigger the multi-byte mechanism, whereas it is used 
to encode further 128 characters in one byte encodings.

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>Comment By: Hye-Shik Chang (perky)
Date: 2004-11-02 05:22

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No. Latin-1 exactly overlaps over Unicode for 0~255.
You seem to confuse Unicode encodings and Unicode itself. 
In the context, we're saying about not encodings such as
UTF-8 but Python's "unicode" built-in type which is based on
Unicode character set.

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