UTF-8 in source code (Re: [Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > I guess to make ur"" have a meaning at all, we'd need to go
> > the Java preprocessor way here, i.e. scan the string *only*
> > for \uXXXX sequences, decode these and convert the rest as-is
> > to Unicode ordinals.
> >
> > Would that be ok ?
> 
> Read Tim's code (posted about 40 messages ago in this list).

I did, but wasn't sure whether he was argueing for going the
Java way...
 
> Like Java, it interprets \u.... when the number of backslashes is odd,
> but not when it's even.  So \\u.... returns exactly that, while
> \\\u.... returns two backslashes and a unicode character.
> 
> This is nice and can be done regardless of whether we are going to
> interpret other \ escapes or not.

So I'll take that as: this is what we want in Python too :-)

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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