[Python-Dev] Unicode literals in Python 2.7

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Note that even if you have a UTF-8 input source, some users are likely
> to be surprised because IIRC Python doesn't canonicalize in its
> codecs; that is left for higher-level libraries.  Linux UTF-8 is
> usually NFC normalized, while Mac UTF-8 is NFD normalized.
>
>  > >> u'\xce\xb1'
>
> Note that that is perfectly legal Unicode.

It's legal Unicode, but it doesn't mean what he typed in. This means:

'\xce' LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
'\xb1' PLUS-MINUS SIGN

but the original input was:

'\u03b1' GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA

ChrisA