converting to and from octal escaped UTF--8

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Michael Goerz <answer654 at 8439.e4ward.com> (MG) wrote:

>MG>         if (ord(character) < 32) or (ord(character) > 128):

If you encode chars < 32 it seems more appropriate to also encode 127.

Moreover your code is quadratic in the size of the string so if you use
long strings it would be better to use join.
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