stephen j turnbull xjzvfpwxemacsorg jim jewett writes think standard repertoire based unicode may confusing issue standard repertoire mean pythons show characters way based unicode intended mean looking tr36 tr39 picking repertoires understand youre saying something like strings repr delegate display_string er im familiar function mind string display repr large standard set characters sends directly output set uescapes purpose avoiding ambiguity sets always defined way python people standard display would painful eg cyrillic users greek users would optional postprocessor basically codec would translate uescapes characters also translate conflicting characters ie ascii case cyrillic greek uescapes users supply display_string function appropriate system yes consenting adults basis cases default display_string display ascii unicodeescape everything else definitely default try display anything displayed unambiguously dont nobody use default except us semilingual americans would point standard repertoire practical purposes scripts know real problems cyrillic greek share glyphs latin alphabet default many characters would escaped im sure scripts course dont mean minimize problem japanese undoubtedly complain fullwidth ascii sympathy particular selfinflicted injury already deprecated unicode compatibility characters hand unicode careful assemble unified set latin characters although like angstrom symbol compatibility encodings dont think thats major worry vast majority asian characters loosely defined including han ideographs radicals korean hangul japanese chinese syllabaries etc going readable appropriate fonts _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 134754 0900 python3000 displaying strings containing unicode escapes