[issue7649] "u'%c' % char" broken for chars in range '\x80'-'\xFF'

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:

> > But why is it necessary to check for chars above 0x7f?
> The Python default encoding has to be ASCII compatible,
Yes, but it is not necessarily as strict.
for example, after I manage to set the default encoding to latin-1,
u"%s" % chr(0x80) works; I suppose %c should do the same.

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