I still like this proposal. I don't quite understand the competing (?) proposal by Stephen Turnbull; perhaps Stephen can compare and contrast the two proposals? And where does Atsuo fall?
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:40 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do think we should use some kind of Unicode-standard-endorsed > > definition of "printable" (as long as it excludes all ASCII escapes), > > I think > > unicodedata.category(c)[0] != "C" > > is fairly close. That excludes control characters (Cc), format > characters (Cf), surrogates (Cs), private-use (Co) and unassigned > characters (Cn). We should then also escape \, ' and ", following > the traditional algorithm. > > Printable then would be all letters, numbers, punctuation, symbols, > but also marks (e.g. TILDE, COMBINING RIGHT HARPOON ABOVE) and > separators (SPACE, NO-BREAK SPACE, THREE-PER-EM SPACE, LINE SEPARATOR, > PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR). It might be reasonable to also exclude line > separators (Zl) and paragraph separators (Zp), each category having > only one character in them. > > Regards, > Martin > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
