Flexible string representation, unicode, typography, ...

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Sun Aug 26 19:31:37 EDT 2012


On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:42:00 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:40:13 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> I think the documentation for those functions is simply badly worded.
>>> The "width in bytes" it returns is not the width of the rune (which as
>>> jmf notes is simply an alias for int32 that stores a single code
>>> point).
>>
>> Is this documented somewhere?
> 
> http://golang.org/ref/spec#Numeric_types

Thanks.

Well that's just plain nuts.


-- 
Steven



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