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

[Eric Smith]

Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> added the comment:

Of course. Sorry about that.

But then why not copy unichr()? It calls PyUnicode_FromOrdinal.

I guess my real question is:

Should "'%c' % i" be identical to "chr(i)" and should "u'%c' % i" be identical to "unichr(i)"?

And by "identical" I mean return the same results and throw the same errors (with a possible difference in the error text).

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