On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:53:39PM +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > One point I forgot to clarify is that I'm fully aware that > print(arbitrary_string) may display garbage, if the string contains > Unicode that my display can't handle. The key point for me is that > print(repr(arbitrary_string)) is *guaranteed* to display correctly, > even on my limited-capability terminal, precisely because it only uses > ASCII and no matter how dumb, all terminals I know of display ASCII.
That's up to print() or any other output device to decide, not to repr(). If I send repr() from a CGI back to the browser it doesn't matter if the server is ascii-only, it only matters if the browser can display unicode. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ 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