jim jewett zuhbosedrugmailcom 5108 martin v löwis wrote escaping looks like r n xxx characters latin1 uxxxx characters bmp u00xxxxxx anything else didnt original proposal escaping zs except space would also escape nbsp en quad em quad thin space hair space ogham space mark etc escaping fine also also didnt consider surrogate pairs ucs2 builds originally course get represented asis realize traditional escape form wonder might better use character names instead hex character codes names written ascii unambiguous easier understand random hex value jj _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 062704 0400 python3000 displaying strings containing unicode escapes