Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.021 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'encoding': 0.05; 'encoded': 0.07; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'url:unicode': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; '"in': 0.16; 'subject:UTF': 0.16; '\xe9crit': 0.16; 'sender:addr:gmail.com': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'coding': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'unicode': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; '(like': 0.30; 'characters': 0.30; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'schemes': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'url:org': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'too': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'loss': 0.38; 'represent': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'full': 0.61; 'range': 0.61; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'to:addr:gmail.com': 0.65; 'url:0': 0.67; 'obvious': 0.74; 'exclusive': 0.81; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kYSu6u8lasbvUNAVF6rX9k8wBcTq0udCYmYVa2uofOc=; b=XTqJpImhL5VxFJdlL5J0yqJO585FyYlfBcxn5Ka9IEDyy+nSi3VI5Zi8wE6Lx5tuHO hO4bOrV4B/eUNLWiO75XCsdge70xkunlOZ40XtNvWv9/p1HeGp9ZbkOxlFEVMBr00VGb T3sFtK4xbrcCTKtdkOzKsnSagq//C9S7k36yskALLSoLKgTJWAaFAE7XxQJ5ixYsGbf6 LDP0OQAzODq32inyrAwLCYcNJE0egFZxZTviIn1xiclE10c5OWwbiAl4l5qanRiCj7iN JdnmBePhVsPU0axGkShJ1JDAZXcXPBUE/5OKYjc6X8MOZeX1gaGtzo4kKDtvc09VaEhD 3GZA== X-Received: by 10.49.110.36 with SMTP id hx4mr929216qeb.93.1381314141696; Wed, 09 Oct 2013 03:22:21 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Ned Batchelder Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 06:22:20 -0400 From: Ned Batchelder User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wxjmfauth@gmail.com Subject: Re: Encoding of surrogate code points to UTF-8 References: <52540e03$0$29984$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <52548791$0$29984$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5254f594$0$29976$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4b728b1a-cc37-4541-80a2-68335f1d5e5f@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <4b728b1a-cc37-4541-80a2-68335f1d5e5f@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1381314149 news.xs4all.nl 15986 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:33397 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:56482 On 10/9/13 4:22 AM, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote: > Le mercredi 9 octobre 2013 08:20:05 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : >> >>> http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch02.pdf#G13708 "All three >>> encoding forms can be used to represent the full range of encoded >>> characters in the Unicode Standard; ... Each of the three Unicode >>> encoding forms can be efficiently transformed into eith er of the other >>> two without any loss of data." >> > Yes, > > and what Unicode.org does not say is that these coding > schemes (like any coding scheme) should be used in an > exclusive way. Can you clarify what you mean by "in an exclusive way"? --Ned. > Probably, because it is too obvious to understand. > > jmf > >