guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg shower think cleared thoughts bit clearly important problem countries ascii doesnt cut like python 3000 using utf8 default source encoding allowing unicode letters identifiers think bite bullet allow repr string pass characters unicode standard considers printable us less capable io devices setting error flag stdout stderr backslashreplace probably best solution solves problems repr another look atsuos patch think use kind unicodestandardendorsed definition printable long excludes ascii escapes since plenty undefined code points even japanese people would probably prefer see rendered uxxxx rather completely invisible im also sure people would want happen surrogate pairs otoh unpaired surrogate rendered uxxxx expect require research agreement perhaps someone produce draft pep attempt sort details specification implementation would also nice could friendly jython ironpython pypy guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 095605 0700 python3000 displaying strings containing unicode escapes