terry reedy twhvuyludeledu martin v lwis wrote message news4819f21d8070808vloewisde think standard repertoire based unicode may confusing issue standard repertoire mean pythons show characters way based unicode intended mean looking tr36 tr39 picking repertoires dont think either tr36 tr39 applicable identifier syntax may various symbols whatnot string also rendered asis escaping repr achieve unambiguity achieve printability agree martin chasing unambiguity something chimera whether glyphs two unicode chars identical depends display system type 1one l el barely distinguishable depending reading lens distance one excaped think displays pixel pixel identical also ones made clearly different ditto 0 zero oh could made look different modern highdefinition outputs suspect already think standard python somehow two options escape everything ascii unambuguity old display systems escape nothing potentially printable leaving partially capable systems fare inbetween solutions ultimately programmer system specific terry jan reedy fri 08 aug 2008 024340 0400 python3000 displaying strings containing unicode escapes