[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat May 24 09:33:19 CEST 2008

Terry Reedy wrote:

"Atsuo Ishimoto" <ishimoto at gembook.org> wrote in message news:797440730805231904y501d310fw124ccd0e37defd3b at mail.gmail.com... | Yes. My question is "Which do you feel comfortable, printing collect | glyphs or hex-escaped ASCII ?". I prefer printed glyphs for foreign | characters, but I had feeling that western people prefer hex-escaped | ASCII in general. But from responses I saw, perhaps this is not big | deal.

Given that my system displays most major alphabets, and that I can recognize most, the glyphs are more informative for informal purposes than seemingly 'random' codes.

The same goes for me - Konsole displays all sorts of Unicode glyphs just fine. I can actually read Japanese kana and the Cyrillic alphabet a heck of a lot better than I can read Unicode hex escapes, purely because the additional symbols are more distinctive than a relatively arbitrary collection of numbers :)

Cheers, Nick.

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