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Subject: Re: Unicode failure
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On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 12/4/2015 10:22 PM, Random832 wrote:
>>
>> On 2015-12-04, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Tk widgets, and hence IDLE windows, will print any character from \u000=
0
>>> to \uffff without raising, even if the result is blank or =EF=BF=BD.  H=
igher
>>> codepoints fail, but allowing the entire BMP is better than any Windows
>>> codepage.
>>
>>
>> Well, any bar 1200, 1201, 12000, 12001, 65000, 65001, and 54936.
>
>
> Test before you post.
>
>>>> for cp in 1200, 1201, 12000, 12001, 65000, 65001, 54936:
>         print(chr(cp))
>
>
> =D2=B0
> =D2=B1
> =E2=BB=A0
> =E2=BB=A1
> =EF=BF=BD
> =EF=BF=BD
> =ED=9A=98

Those numbers aren't codepoints, they're code pages. Specifically,
they're UTF-16, UTF-32, UTF-8, and I'm not sure what 54936 is.

ChrisA