Unicode failure

[eryk sun]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> On 12/4/2015 10:22 PM, Random832 wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2015-12-04, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Tk widgets, and hence IDLE windows, will print any character from \u0000
>>>> to \uffff without raising, even if the result is blank or �.  Higher
>>>> codepoints fail, but allowing the entire BMP is better than any Windows
>>>> codepage.
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, any bar 1200, 1201, 12000, 12001, 65000, 65001, and 54936.
>>
>>
>> Test before you post.
>>
>>>>> for cp in 1200, 1201, 12000, 12001, 65000, 65001, 54936:
>>         print(chr(cp))
>>
>>
>> Ұ
>> ұ
>> ⻠
>> ⻡
>> �
>> �
>> 횘
>
> Those numbers aren't codepoints, they're code pages. Specifically,
> they're UTF-16, UTF-32, UTF-8, and I'm not sure what 54936 is.

Codepage 65000 is UTF-7. Codepage 54936 [1] is GB18030, the official
character set of China. It's a UTF superset of GBK. For comparison,
codepage 936 is a subset of GBK (it's missing 95 characters) plus the
Euro symbol.

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317756