> Atsuo Ishimoto writes: > > > Yes. My question is "Which do you feel comfortable, printing collect > > glyphs or hex-escaped ASCII ?". I prefer printed glyphs for foreign > > characters, but I had feeling that western people prefer hex-escaped > > ASCII in general. But from responses I saw, perhaps this is not big > > deal. > > I think Americans, at least, tend to fear that non-ASCII will be > interpreted as terminal control sequences or highlighted annoyingly in > some way. Otherwise, they might grumble about the fact that what > they're seeing isn't English, but it doesn't matter whether it's > hex-escaped or kanji.
The nice thing about hex-escaped characters is that I can look up the character code to find out what the character is. Hard to do that with a glyph that I don't recognize. Bill _______________________________________________ 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
