[Python-Dev] \u and \U escapes in raw unicode string literals (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon May 14 02:55:52 CEST 2007

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

* non-ASCII code points in text are not uncommon, they occur in most European scripts, all Asian scripts,

In an Asian script, almost every character is likely to be non-ascii, which is going to be pretty hard to read as a string of unicode escapes.

Maybe what we want is a new kind of string literal in which everything is a unicode escape. A sufficiently smart editor could then display it using the appropriate characters, yet it could still be dealt with as ascii- only in a pinch.

-- Greg

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