atsuo ishimoto dsuvthimgembookorg thu may 1 2008 106 pm stephen j turnbull wrote atsuo ishimoto writes atsuo fall sorry understand word fall perhaps colloquial expression case means opinion compared stephen martin oh see thank wrote think proposals competing dont fall neither side pep proposed use unicode properties based proposal michael martin almost identical written martin added zs separator space ascii spacex20 category contains characters listed end mail assume characters hexescaped although know nothing characters think readability beats unambiguity repr dont agree stephens view repr like quotedprintable encoding mime standard repertoire stephen proposed desired conversion based repertoire done strings repr produced repertoire useful def standard_strings return _convert_ambiguous_charss print standard_stringreprobj standard_stringsysstdinreadline great ill take look tomorrow friday thank ill looking forward feedback characters defined zs 0x20 space 0xa0 nobreak space 0x1680 ogham space mark 0x2000 en quad 0x2001 em quad 0x2002 en space 0x2003 em space 0x2004 threeperem space 0x2005 fourperem space 0x2006 sixperem space 0x2007 figure space 0x2008 punctuation space 0x2009 thin space 0x200a hair space 0x200b zero width space 0x202f narrow nobreak space 0x205f medium mathematical space 0x3000 ideographic space _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 153339 0900 python3000 displaying strings containing unicode escapes