Re: Unicode failure

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Unicode failure
Date	2015-12-05 01:12 -0500
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On 12/4/2015 11:15 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 22:49:49 +0000
> Albert-Jan Roskam <sjeik_appie@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I think you need to use a raw unicode string, ur

Nope.  The 'r' prefix does not disable unicode escapes.

>>>>> unicodedata.name(ur'\u2122')
>> 'TRADE MARK SIGN'

If if did, the string above would have 6 chars instead of 1 and the 
above would not work.

> That seems to work in 2.x but not 3.x.

'u' was restored in 3.3 as a do-nothing prefix, but the combination 'ur' 
was not.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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