[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces (original) (raw)

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Tue Apr 28 01:09:13 CEST 2009

On approximately 4/27/2009 12:42 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Martin v. Löwis:

It's a private use area. It will never carry an official character assignment.

I know that U+F0000 - U+FFFFF is a private use area. I don't find a definition of U+F01xx to know what the notation means. Are you picking a particular character within the private use area, or a particular range, or what? It's a range. The lower-case 'x' denotes a variable half-byte, ranging from 0 to F. So this is the range U+F0100..U+F01FF, giving 256 code points.

So you only need 128 code points, so there is something else unclear.

-- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/

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