[New-bugs-announce] [issue14176] Fix unicode literals (for PEP 414)

[Jean-Michel Fauth]

New submission from Jean-Michel Fauth <wxjmfauth at gmail.com>:

Now, that the PEP 414 has been accepted, I can
only strongly recommend to fix the problem
of unicode literals as a partial workaround.

>>> print u'abcœé€'
abcé
>>> 

If these six characters are not rendered correctly, you
shoud read:
LATIN SMALL LETTER A
LATIN SMALL LETTER B
LATIN SMALL LETTER C
LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
EURO SIGN

It is not necessary to give here the list of
the numerous libs that do not understand
u'unicode literals' as shown above.

(I wrote all my Py2 code in a u'unicode mode',
and I know how hard it is to have to select
between the u'' or unicode() variants.

Face it. Python has never worked [*], Python does
not work, Python will never work. More important,
it is more than clear to me, there is no willingness
to solve this issue. (The holy compatibilty with not
working code).

[*] Except the pure ASCII serie (Py 1.5) and the
Python 3[0,1,2] serie.

No offense. I'm pretty sure the creator of this
PEP is not even able to type on his machine the
list of the 42 characters supposed to be available
it the typographies (plural) used by the different
countries speaking French.
The whole free/open source software disaster in all
its splendor.

Regards.
jmf

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messages: 154763
nosy: Jean-Michel.Fauth
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Fix unicode literals (for PEP 414)
versions: Python 3.3

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