guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg still like proposal dont quite understand competing proposal stephen turnbull perhaps stephen compare contrast two proposals atsuo fall thu apr 17 2008 240 pm martin v löwis wrote think use kind unicodestandardendorsed definition printable long excludes ascii escapes think unicodedatacategoryc0 c fairly close excludes control characters cc format characters cf surrogates cs privateuse co unassigned characters cn also escape following traditional algorithm printable would letters numbers punctuation symbols also marks eg tilde combining right harpoon separators space nobreak space threeperem space line separator paragraph separator might reasonable also exclude line separators zl paragraph separators zp category one character regards martin guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 215750 0700 python3000 displaying strings containing unicode escapes